Monday 4th Update

Will just finished with his heart cath, and he came out just fine.

They had to do the cath through his liver, which proved to be more difficult than most patients. His liver was tougher than usual and it took a couple of pokes to find a vein. They will have to watch his belly closely to make sure that he doesn't bleed out. But, so far so good.

This is what they found: the right pulmonary artery to his lung is narrowed, which may explain his problems with dropping his oxygen sats. This will definitely require a surgical repair by a heart surgeon. The Vandy doctors will discuss it tonight and will call Michigan as well to tell them their findings.

It may be as long as Thursday before we know anything about the surgery.

I'm not sure how soon they will want to do the surgery. I just hope they can wait until he is more stable and his infection is gone, because he can have a lot of problems with his surgery. But, they will do whatever they have to do.