Thursday 29th September - part two.

Good news

Freddie's heart operation has gone well. The surgeon rang at about 12:30pm which was very scary as we weren't expecting to hear that early and also not expecting to hear directly from the surgeon himself. He told us that he had performed the coarctation repair but had to disconnect the blood vessel that was in the way. They had tested the blood flow to the arm that the vessel went to and it was good so they were happy. 

We visited him once he was back in the intensive care unit. He doesn't look his best bless him, lots of wires going in and out and he's on the ventilator but we knew that would be the case. They are monitoring him very closely and are taking blood at regular intervals. They do a blood gas test every hour and the nurse said the results were getting better every time. It is just a case of giving him time to recover from the surgery and hoping there are no more hurdles to get over. 

We saw the surgeon briefly (the less time he spends with us the better the news!) and he said that he was able to perform the 'end to end' coarctation repair which is the preferred method. He said that if any problems develop with his arm then he would be able to re-attach the the disconnected blood vessel. The reason that he couldn't re-connect the blood vessel during today's surgery was because he had to stop the blood flow to Freddie's spine and this can only be done for a certain amount of time before there is a significant risk of causing damage. 

We are still aware that Freddie still has some fighting to do to recover but we are very relieved that he has had his heart surgery and has come through it still fighting.
Our little man is showing his determination to get home.

Thank you so much to everyone for their concern, support, prayers and words of comfort since Freddie arrived early but especially over the last couple of days, keep it coming people!

I'm not going to post any more photos till Freddie is off his ventilator.

Lots of Love

Aimee xxx