Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Dallin's procedure

We are going to Primary children's hospital in Salt Lake tomorrow (Tuesday) for Dallin's heart catheterization.  We have to get there at 6:00 am!  As you can probably guess, we're super excited about that.  We don't really have any new information or anything about Dallin's condition since we were in the hospital with him a month ago.  He's been on oxygen this whole time and the doctors are hoping that the oxygen will have widened his narrow heart valve somewhat on its own, without the need for a surgical intervention.  I think that the plan for tomorrow is to do another echocardiogram first to see if anything has changed or gotten better.  Then, depending on what they see, they will do the heart cath.  But we're thinking the doctors are gonna do the heart cath anyway "just to be safe."  After doing the cath, they should be able to tell what they will need to do about the valve, if they can just leave it alone, or if they'll need to put a balloon in or even do surgery. Because they will have to sedate him for the procedure, Dallin will most likely have to stay overnight in the hospital so they can monitor him and make sure he's recovering well and eating well.  We're hoping that after tomorrow he won't have to be on oxygen anymore, and we'll be able to go back to a pretty normal life.  We're grateful for the prayers on Dallin's behalf, and we're pretty optimistic that all will go well tomorrow.  Wish us luck!  

2 comments:

Katie said...

Good luck little baby. Hopefully you won't have to come home with the evil oxygen tank this time.

Crapos said...

oh, I hope everything goes well today. Dallin's gotta be ready for when we come out to visit! He's got two cousins that are ready to pounce on him!