Home and doing great!

Blaise did a great job yesterday in the recovery room. They actually entered his body in three places, once in his neck, and once in each groin. Traditionally they only need one, but he needed two because he has a vortex shunt in his heart, so I believe they needed to go in from two different locations since maybe they couldn’t pass through that. The third location was due to going into his right leg before realizing his femeral artery was blocked there. Anyway, those entry spots are not stitched closed, but clot on there own, shutting it off. He had to lay flat on his back and not move his legs for six hours, not even to use restroom. They did not want these clots to move or break open and bleed out. He did excellent laying there, watched the Little Rascal movie had a few of our favorite nurses stop by to visit and played the hospital iPad. He never took a nap! Around 6, he was released to go home. We did a quick Burger King stop, and got him tucked into bed around 730 when we got home. Sutton and Holten were both very concerned loving caring siblings who noticed all of Blaise’s “owies.”

I went to work today and Mike stayed home with Blaise who was on bed rest. They did make it to Bomgaars to pick out any farm toy he wanted, our bribe for going through everything. He choose a JD 4020, with a mower. He did really good today, took a nap, played nicely. We got his pressure dressings off and I’m sure that has to feel better!

It sounds like the heart department at Children’s blew up into a chaotic hot mess this week, with lots of emergency cases being admitted. Since Blaise is doing fine, his case is not considered emergent. The findings from his heart cath will be presented during one of the meetings all of the cardiologist, surgeons and heart depts have every Monday morning. Due to all the emergency cases taking priority and a 2 hour timeframe, we don’t think they’ll have time to discuss Blaise this next Monday, so we will have to wait another week. Nothing that we are aware of should limit Blaise from having his big open heart surgery yet this summer. Thank you for all the prayers, thoughts and messages! There is nothing better then small town Iowa or Nebraska!! A few fun “small world” notes from yesterday- Dr. Danford and Dr Delaneys main nurse, who has been there with us since we got the diagnosis, all our check ups and yesterday is married to my elementary p.e teacher. We also learned that Dr Delaney’s (the heart cath surgeon- he’s done all three of Blaise’s) has a marathon coach and she is originally from Treynor and babysat me when I was little! #godsigns

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