Heart Catheterization

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 :)

6 weeks old

7 weeks old

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