Cath Day

This morning started early about 5 am and anyone who knows me knows that I am not a morning person. To start the morning I could not get the shower to work and was shivering while in there until finally it warmed up. Our bed and breakfast was a big step up from the Karl hotel, but it was still a very old building. This was then followed by walking to the car about 5 blocks away and then double parking to load all of our stuff. Still don't understand why people want to live down here. (No offense to SF dwellers.)

Owen was his normal happy self flirting with the ladies when ever he got a chance and throwing smiles to all passing by. After checking in at admitting we were brought up to our room where vitals were checked and Owen took no time at all to start setting off the alarms with his lower oxygen saturation. The memories of all of this started as soon as we were in the parking lot. Owen was taken to the cath lab at about 0900 and we went with him to the suite and stayed while he had an IV started in his foot. Prior to heading down the cath lab from Owen's room (aka closet-cubby with other kids) they gave him some versed and benedryl to help calm him by mouth. This worked within about 5 mins. He was HIGH on drugs at this point and was making everyone laugh. He would just sit there and smile and what ever you do he thought it was the funniest thing that he had ever seen and would laugh out loud. He had a glazed over look on his face and it was too funny. It was a great way to send him off. Too bad versed is a controlled substance. We left Owen in the hands of the amazing team once again and they had him for about three hrs. Chels and I were tired so we retreated to the car and attempted to sleep. We were awoke by the car shaking and my first thought was earthquake in my sleep stupor then realized it was the person behind us who just backed into us. I guess she did not feel it the first time so she did it again. She then drove off. I guess she did not feel it the second time either. Another reason I don't like this area very much.

Owen returned drunk once again on some different meds again and was not a happy drunk this time. They want him to be flat but that did not start off very well. He was all over the place and they said its okay we just want to try to keep his leg from moving a lot. Owen had a different plan in mind-- he would not move anything else but his right leg. He was kicking his right leg like he was Michael Phelps swimming for the gold. We were lucky when they did Owens cath they were able to obtain all of his pictures by going through his right femoral vein and not the artery. The artery has a higher complication rate related the higher pressure in the arterial system when compared to the venous. This can cause bleeding at the cath site. The MD met us in the room after and said everything went well and Owen did great. The findings- Owen is dependent on the shunt still. He has very little function of his right ventricle which was expected. This will require Owen to have a another surgery soon. He also has the veins that will need to be fixed which they were able to see in good detail this time. We were told he is ready for surgery and chelsea and I elected to have it done asap. I guess that there surgery schedule is busy but will still probably be in the next month or so. He had some increased pulmonary pressure and they might start him on viagra to help lower that prior to surgery. hope to be going home by 5 pm today.