It is hard to believe but Hudson is 2 months old today. Time is definitely flying by, and it is amazing
to see how much Hudson is changing every day. Things have been going well although we did have to go back
to the hospital for a night of observation two weeks ago because his oxygen
saturations were dropping. The cardiology
team wanted to evaluate him with continuous monitoring to see if we would need to
move his heart cath to an earlier date.
After watching him overnight, they decided that his saturations were not
dropping too low and that he was recovering from these desaturation periods
fairly quickly so they wanted to keep the original cath date. Just so you know all HLHS babies have
at least two heart caths during their lives and many may have more. The first cath is between the first and
second surgeries. It not only
evaluates the function of the heart, but also is used to determine the best
date for the second surgery. In
Hudson’s case, they will also be attempting to do a balloon dilation to help with the narrowing of his pulmonary artery. We are hopeful that this will take care
of the pulmonary stenosis and that he will be able to come off of the oxygen,
but if not they can try to address this issue again during the second
surgery. Hudson’s heart cath is
this Friday, August 23rd and we ask that you keep him in your prayers that day. During the cath Hudson will be put to sleep and he will be on a ventilator. He should come off the ventilator very soon after the procedure is finished. Our sweet baby boy is definitely a
fighter, and we are just so thankful for how well he is doing.
Here are some recent pictures of Hudson. For those of you wondering, he is on
continuous oxygen but we got permission from his doctors to take off his nasal
canula for some quick pictures :)
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