Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Surgery is scheduled

Yesterday was a long day, followed by waking up around 4. Getting sick 3 times, back asleep, and then around 9 Cameron finally awoke from the brain fog.
Just in time for bed!
We watched a little wall-e and called it a night just after the midnight blood draw, don't ask me what that was about.

4:30 am rude awakening tons of pain, slept it off with some meds. He was feeling better around 8. We headed to the life center for 2 hours, they had an improv group there, Cameron thought they were pretty good. Even if their humor was more geared to the parents! They made funny noises and what 5 year old doesn't love that.

We have attempted lunch, but he's down and out again. Spoke with Dr. Bowman and is slated for 10ish tomorrow to do surgery. Assuming no surprises when they open him up a new valve will be placed. If this does not work there will be talk of adding a 2nd valve in his chest. I don't want to do this and I can tell neither does Dr. bowman because she wouldn't even discuss it in detail saying it's rather complicated and would like to avoid this.

So we are going to take this hour by hour and focus on an event free 24 hours and successful surgery.

Tomorrow will be hard, but we can do this! And most importantly Cameron can!

2 comments:

Gretchen said...

Prayong for you and Cameron... that the surgery goes well, and that God let's you do the lesser complicated one!

Bless you!

Gina Nelson said...

Hi Rory,

I am sorry to hear that Cameron has to have surgery today. I remember Sierra's surgery and how stressful it can be on everyone. Please know that we are thinking of you guys, praying for Cameron and hoping he will be back to his old self in no time. Hang in there!

Gina Nelson
Sierra' mom (Dandy Walker Malformation, Cyst Fenestration 2007)