Surgery

Nathan had his surgery today and is stable now. The surgery didn't start until 10:30 this morning and lasted about four hours. The docs feel it was successful and say he did really well. The hole was very large so they had to actually put in a patch to close it. He is having some minor complications right now. He is having some bleeding which they are draining from around the heart and they have been giving meds to help clot this since this afternoon. It appears to be working. Tonight his heart rate keeps dropping down below 100 which they are monitoring closely. They attempted to use the pace wires to regulate his heart rate but this is not working so Dr. Caspi ordered to lower the amount of sedation to see if this will help. His oxygen levels are a little off as well so they have been changing the ventilator rate as needed. He made it through the surgery but obviously he still has quite a battle ahead of him. While we are here they are going to be doing a lot of tests to try to find out why he is having so many other issues and see what we can do to correct them. I pray these complications are small and will not continue to cause problems. He just looks so helpless laying there. Please, Please, Please keeping praying for our little one. I will update as often as possible....Thanks..Julie and Sal