Jayden's Journey Day Two

This morning around 6:00am we were suddenly woken up by the nurses asking us if we wanted to hold Jayden before they placed the ventilator in him. Before we could even really know what was going on, we were kissing our son one last time before he would be completely sedated. After about an hour, Jayden was ready for the OR (operating room) for his surgery. At 8am the nurses took him and it was then a waiting game. Around 10:30am our cardiologist came in and said that everything was going well, and that at this time his heart was completely exposed with no blood in it, as the surgeons were patching the pulmonary valve. Words can't express what was going through my mind in this moment, but I knew that God was in control. 30 minutes later he came back in and said that everything went perfectly and that he was now getting stitched up and would be back in his room in a few minutes. God is GREAT! And we are so thankful that all is going well right now.

For those that are wondering exactly what the surgeons did for Jayden, I will do my best to explain. They used a laser device to cut through the skin in his sternum and because the sternum is not bone yet and more like cartilage it was very simple to get in. After they had him open they arrested and drained the blood in his heart, and began to fix the problem which is the pulmonary valve. They went along side the valve making an incision in an attempt to widen and open the valve more as they patched a piece of a cow vein in that space. They then put him back together and stitched him up. Right now he has a bandage on his chest, with two tubes draining the blood out from around his heart. He has many iv's all through out his body, a ventilator breathing for him and many other things that I don't even know, but the plan is to have everything off him tomorrow morning and hopefully he will be able to come home possibly next Friday. Thank you so much for all of your prayers and continue to lift him up as he is still not quite out of the woods, but he is on the winning side as of now.