Day 31: Surgery Day

**Jamie held his little elephant during the surgery..i had his little bear!**


UGH...this could possibly have been the longest day ever. On Monday they told us the surgery would be today, in the early afternoon, but when I went in for rounds this morning they said his had been pushed back to later in the day because a more serious case had presented itself overnight. So 12pm...1pm...2pm....3pm...go by, I took a walk through Washington Heights to take my mind of things...that'll do it!! lol

At about 2 we still hadn't heard anything and the nurse mentioned it might get pushed to the next day. NO WAY could I handle waiting another day. Finally at 3 something the surgeon came and said the surgery was on and they would start prepping soon. Yeah I wanted to pretty much throw up but i was happy it was finally going to be over.

Jamie had been waiting at work so I called him and he headed to the hospital. Finally about 4:45 they came and got him..it sucked, plain and simple. I started to lose it but quickly stopped, thinking I have a lot of tears waiting to come out and was scared I wouldn't know how to stop the flow. We headed down to get something to eat and wait. Luckily it is a quick surgery. We went back up at 6 and the nurse said he would be back soon and she would come get us when he was all set up again. About 10 minutes later the mother of the baby next to us came peeking in the room we were waiting in and told us he was back...that was so sweet of her, she was so happy for us...even her husband was looking for us out in the family lounge :)

Before we got a chance to go see him the surgeons found us and told us everything went great. They said he "behaved" and everything went smoothly. The hole in his heart was actually really big so they had to use 2 clips to close it but it was all done!! They said he would be sluggish for the night and need extra assistance from the ventilator but everything would be fine. We went to see him and he looked great!!! It was such a relief! He opened his eyes a couple of times but just for a second or so he definetly was out of it.

We stayed till about 9 to make sure everything was ok, we were so beat and finally had to head home. SO HAPPY that is over with!!!!!! Now we can move forward.