"Quit playing games with my heart"

Owen and mini Blue

Owen with Mom's glasses this time

Mom caught me sleeping twice today

Papa Schlitz and Portia with baby Owen

Papa Schlitz and baby Owen

Owen's current life soundtrack would start out with track 1 being "Quit playing games with my heart" once sung by the very popular Backstreet boys. That is how we feel at times but we know that this is a waiting game. The cardiac team along with Owen's regular cardiologist have decided that they feel more comfortable with waiting 1 more week and giving his body more time to allow a decrease pulmonary vascular resistance. We are good with this, We both know that surgery would help correct this but this is major surgery in this little body that comes with risk. So we are down here for another week at least, in a perfect world we could come home if he begins to have better sats but that is being very optimistic at this time. We will re-evaluate next Sunday. He had another Echo today of his heart which was 2 hrs long. One of the many cardio docs did this and took about 300 images. Owen had some visitors today, friend Portia came by and got to snuggle with little O for awhile. Papa Schlitz was able to come by and hold Owen for a long time. Papa was the one who bought the "moose" his antlers. We have been staying with Rich (papa Schlitz) and it has been great. When we arrived the first night one of our longer days at the hospital he had made us stuffed pasta shells with shrimp and artichoke hearts and ricotta cheese followed but homemade chocolate chip ice cream. It was great. Then I awoke the next morning to the wonderful aroma of BACON coming the hall calling my name. The bacon was accompanied by an omelet. Last night when we got back to his house there was BBQ kabobs with an awesome salad followed of course by homemade ice cream. Again this morning while in the shower the smell of bacon cut through the bathroom and into the shower with me. I cut my shower short (not everything needs a deep cleaning!) and had to have the bacon and apple Cinnamon pancakes. We are eating great and I can not wait to see what is on tonight's menu. Owen was able to be moved out of the overflow area and back to the cardiac ICU. He has done well today saturation's mostly in the high 70s. We will wait and see and hope that his PVR (pressure in his lungs) lowers and won't need surgery for now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring us. Thanks for the support.

-Chris