Henry has his Pre-Fontan heart catheterization tomorrow morning. We are scheduled to be at the hospital at 7am. As we are the first case of the day, the procedure should start around 8:30. This is great, as Henry can’t have any food or milk after midnight tonight. They are allowing him water until 6:30am. He typically sleeps until 7:30am. So, we hope the water will be enough for the drive to LA in the morning. The procedure should take a couple of hours. There is a chance that we could go home tomorrow, but I’m not getting my hopes up. It all depends on whether or not they’ll need to do work while they’re in there.
Basically, the heart cath is being done to determine if Henry will be a good candidate for the third of the three staged surgeries used to treat HLHS. The first (“Norwood)” was done shortly after birth; the Glen (aka bi-directional Glenn, or Hemi-fontan) was the next phase, and Henry’s had that already as well. The Fontan is the completion phase of the Glenn. If you would like to read more about the heart cath or Fontan checkout - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontan_procedure
Again, thanks for your thoughts and prayers!
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Hello Steve and Shanna,
George and I are thinking about you guys and praying for Henry. We hope the Pre-Fontan Heart Cath went well.
Take care,
Lou
p.s. we will check your blog from time to time for any update.
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