SURGERY DAY

Let me first say that so far we are very pleased with the Le Bonheur Children's Hospital. Everyone has been so nice and helpful. The hospital is sooo cute!!! I'm so sorry that I didn't get to update the blog yesterday but as soon as Ethan was admitted we were running around the hospital like crazy. He had an Echocardiogram,EKG, chest x-ray,lab work and IV started. Despite all of that Ethan has been so great and smiling at all the nurses and docs.
OK, now for the surgery, he was taken back at 6:45am and they plan to start the surgery around 8:00am. Doctor Knott-Craig came by yesterday and went over everything that he would be doing to Ethan's little heart today. The surgery should take about 2 1/2 hours but since there is a problem with a narrowing of the aorta that will need to be addressed and will add an additional hour to an hour and half on to surgery time. He expects us to have Ethan back in CICU by around 1:00pm.Doctor Knott-Craig's nurse will be checking in throughout surgery as she will be in and out of the operating room all day. I have put some new pics on the blog so hopefully everyone will feel like they are phyically here with us even though we know that you are thinking of us in thought and prayer.