Surgery Off

Some of you may already know most of this so sorry for the repeat, but for those of you who don't, here goes...it's been an adventurous week...again.

We were told on Monday that they wanted to go ahead and progress with the surgery this week to close the VSD. Obviously that caught us off guard because we were waiting until he got to 4 lbs. to prepare ourselves for that. That got thrown out the window. We guessed that they weren't happy with his growth but it put me (mommy) into a tizzy thinking about the aftermath of this for Colton at such a small size. So as I am learning to do, I asked to talk to the doctors and surgeon to see what the real deal was.

After digesting the fact that he was having surgery, I was then told by the surgeon that there wasn't agreement amongst the cardiologists about whether to do the surgery or not. They had a big caucus this morning and based on his growth this last week, which has been pretty good, they decided to hold off on the surgery for now. That is a big relief to us. We know he'll have to have it but the risks and the after care are much easier once he is bigger.

Speaking of bigger, he is now 3 lbs. 11.5 oz. He went down earlier this week a couple of ounces but has rebounded. We are hoping he'll keep it up and by the weekend hit 4! They are also trying to wean him off of his dieuretic, Bumax. I love it, one of his doctors called it the neutron bomb of dieuretics. Guess it is strong. lol. They are putting him on a lesser strength one as part of the weaning. Oh lord, please please please keep peeing!

That's about it from the land of Colton. We'll update you if anything major comes up or when he hits 4 lbs!