Hayden's Post Surgery Update

I am happy to announce that Hayden's 2 1/2 hour surgery on Wednesday went very well. He went to the OR at 12:30, where we waiting about 30 minutes for the Neurosurgeon, Dr Lee to arrive. I was briefed by the Anasesiologeist on the local he would be given, the muscle relaxer and met the whole team that would be assisting in Hayden’s surgery. About 6 total. Of course he was also on a ventilator during the procedure. At 1:00 he went into surgery and came out at 3:00. Dr Lee and his nurse did a post surgery briefing, where we were able to conference call Adrienne to give her the good news. He did great; the shunt was put in first with no complications. Next was an incision made on the back of his head, picture attached below and a second one (smaller) on his belly. I could not get a picture of that since he has to be on his belly until full recovery. The lesion closure went very well also with no complications. Since it was large, about the size of a silver dollar pancake the Drs had a lot of skin to work with and were able to close the lesion with a vertical incision. He was then brought back to the NICU by our favorite nurse Lei and a few others where he was comfortably placed on his bed. At 9:00PM when I went to visit him at Dell to say good night and drop off what mommy had pumped that night he was sound, sound asleep. The ventilator was on low...low, which is great and he will probably be off of it later in the night or early tomorrow morning. Showers of blessings have been poured upon us and once again Heavenly Father is completely in control of what is happening here. Truly we are witnessing a wonderful miracle of heath, strength and a calming peace that is the Holy Ghost letting us know that everything is going to as planned. Knowing that he is doing well I had a good nights rest at the wonderful Ronald McDonald House next door and I am sure that Adrienne slept well too. Love to our Family and Friends.

Hayden's 2nd Day

Hayden had a great night sleep. It is 9:34CST and he has been sleeping most of the morning. He just starting to move around and is showing that he has some good lungs. Hayden's surgery is scheduled for today @ 12:30 with Neurosurgeon's Dr. George and Dr Lee. Since the lesion in his spin is fairly large the Dr's say that is good as they will have a lot to work with to repair the birth defect. He has his CAT-Scan yesterday and his ventricles are fairly enlarged so they will be performing the brain shunt surgery. His surgery is expected to take about 2 hours. Our good friend Lei Streuling is a RT nurse here at Dell Children's Hospital. It was so good to see a familiar face this morning and that she will be helping with his transport down to the OR. Today he looks very good, feet/legs are moving quite a bit, color looks good and he is opening his eyes some more. Dr's said this morning that he is responding very well to everything so far.

Hayden with Hickups