Save the Date!

David slept for a good portion of the day (Who knew babies did such things?) and as we found out later in the day it was for good reason. As you can see by the pictures he is calming more and more down everyday. He slept and hung out most of the day without his paci, and the highlight of the day is Nicole got to hold David for about an hour and the three us just sat and cuddled with each other as a family. David had a slew of tests (2 heart ultrasounds, a brain ultrasound, and a renal ultrasound) (also did I spell renal correctly?) Everything seemed to be in order and we eventually met with the Cardiologists who explained a little more in depth what the procedure he thought was going to happen but he didn't know when or exactly how it was going to go down because he had to meet with the kiddo heart surgeons to discuss it, we thought this meant that is was going to be hours or even tomorrow until we got any more word and that surgery would be next week. Literally an hour later the three of them came down to tell us that David is having his first of 3 surgeries on Wednesday!!! So in a weird way we are excited and scared to death!!! David will be in hardcore ICU for at least 2 weeks and then we will have to stay another 4-6 weeks until he hits some benchmarks in eating and weight since he will have to learn to eat at a month old. So the procedure is something like this:

1. They are going to expand the aortic arch because right now his is so tight blood won't really get down to the bottom organs and legs so they will expand that out and the PDA valve will go away.

2. They will separate the pulmonary valve in half. One half they will attach to his aorta artery to increase blood flow in case he is narrowing anywhere else. This is also done so blood is not flowing back into the lungs.

3. The second half of the pulmonary is shunt to a branch of the aorta so that blood continues to flow into the lungs.

This is just the first surgery, the best way for me to put is they are going to MacGyver his heart into a working blood pumping machine. We are terrified and super weepy still but also able to laugh and be excited that we have a plan and a date. So please please pray! Also know that for the next little while I won't be answering my phone still. It's still hard to talk too much about it and most of the time is spent with him or sleeping. Also on Wednesday if you are in the Louisville area we are asking that you just pray for David and for our peace. We will be surrounded by our moms and sisters and will be loved on and trying to rest when we can. Thank you all so much again and again thank you for your love and support.

D