Pre-op

This is going to have to be short and sweet. It was a very busy and tiring day for the 3 of us. Poor Owen had to go through a lot of stuff today on no naps, and not sleeping well last night. Owen had lab work, xrays, echo, ekg and multiple other things done to him today. He was finally falling asleep at 9:30 pm when I left the hospital. Chelsea is staying with Owen tonight in the hospital so I hope that they both get some good sleep. I am at Ronald's and will be going to bed after this. Owen is first case in the morning at 0630. This is good, just to get it done and not have to think about it all day. Like I said yesterday tomorrow is a very big surgery with a lot of risk involved with complications. They added another procedure as well making 4 things to do. He will have his shunt taken down, the Glenn procedure and fixing his pulmonary vein which will be the hardest per the surgeon and the 4th is he has a hole between his 2 atrium and this has been helping him in his case. They are going to make an insertion in his right atrium and cut that hole to actually make in bigger. This part I am not sure for the reasoning why and will learn more about it tomorrow. So just a few things to do. He will be on bypass for awhile but they are less concerned because he is much bigger. The surgeon was very happy with Owens weight gain. In the cardiac kids world, Owen is a moose compared to the others. He was impressed at all the hard work. While the surgeon was there the most interesting thing happened. Owen had been fussy all day whenever someone would come in but when the surgeon came in Owen was calm and just starring at him like he knew him. I was weird if you could have seen it in person. Owen had a look of understanding and calmness, it was a touching moment. I must go to sleep it will be an early morning with a lot of stress. Thank you all for the support and prayers and I will update tomorrow with all the good news. Sorry it was so short and had no jokes but I will include some funny stories in future blogs like the over touchy male cashier in the cafe. Chris