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posted by Mom on July 23, 2006

So we're still trucking along. His heartrate is staying in the 70-80-90 range, which is making us all happy. I asked his cardiologist - if we didn't have the heartrate concern - based on his recovery from the Glenn procedure alone, would we be in step-down by now? He said we would be, which means that he's recovered nicely from the surgery. Yay!

His cardiologist also said that he wouldn't do a pacemaker unless it was absolutely, absolutely necessary, and that he'd rather watch him for a while to make sure the heartrate wasn't going to be an issue. Apparently, once someone's got a pacer in, it's pretty much a pacer-for-life deal, so he doesn't take a decision like this lightly. His surgeon agrees... so while we're not out of the pacemaker woods yet, we're a few steps back from having one put in than we were a day or two ago. Yay #2!

AND... if Sammy continues with these same numbers through the night and early morning, we could be moved to step-down tomorrow evening. Yay #3!!!

AND... in a bit of normalcy, Sammy had a complete blowout with some of the nastiest, nastiest poop. While I was holding him. BLECH. So he got a bath, which was much needed. We also got to hold him quite a bit today, which was really, really nice. He's talking a bit more now, too - working his way back to our little boy.

Knock on wood. Again, for good luck. And again for not tempting the fates by wishing for good luck. Hell, just spend the next few minutes knocking on wood, okay? Thanks. :-)