We're Home!

Sorry it tooks us so long to update. It's been crazy trying to get back into normal life! Korver got to come home Friday afternoon! It's so great to have things somewhat back to normal. The boys were so excited to sleep in their own beds (I was too)! The only thing tricky is that we have to give him 7 medications a day at different times, we're still figuring out that one!
Thanks to everyone for their love, prayers, & faith that helped us get through this difficult time. Korver will have an appt next week to make sure things are still good but the Doctors think everything will be fine and he won't have to have anymore surgeries!

Korver's update

Yes we are still here. Korver's heart rate keeps going down especially when he's sleeping. He's also been having arithmic heart beats. The doctors are going back & forth on what to do. Our cardiologist says this is normal after the procedure but the theresic cardiologist is more concerned that this is being caused from the device they put in him. He was even saying that worst case scenario is we have to take the device out & do the normal bypass open heart surgery.
Please pray for the Doctors to know what to do & pray especially for Korver so that he doesn't have to go through this again.
Thanks so much to all of you who are praying & offering your help. We especially thank our amazing parents who have had our boys for over a week now. It's definately not an easy task to keep up with them!

Still Here....

We were all set to go home on Monday morning when they came in and told us that Korver's heart rate was dropping to very low levels when he slept. They thought this was being caused by his blood pressure medicine so they took him off of it.

Monday afternoon his blood pressure was very high and there had been no change in his heart rate so they put him on a new Blood pressure medicine.

His heart rate continued to fluctuate overnight so they decided to put him on another machine that will monitor his heart rate a little closer for a 24 hour period. Then they will take the information,analyze it, and then decide what to do from there.

It looks like the soonest he will be released will be Thursday.

He is still very happy most of the time but I think he is really looking forward to going home.

Day 4

Yesterday was a good day for Korver!

They took out the chest drain tube and pacemaker wires.



They took out the rest of his IV's late last night and he can now have all his meds by mouth.

We bought him a little bear in the gift shop an he wont let go of it.



If all continue to go well they are telling us that we should be able to leave Monday around noon.

Taylor at Soccer

Taylor had his third soccer game yesterday and did AWESOME!

He scored the first goal of the game off this assist.

He really hussles and always gives it his all.

This was the shot that he scored his second goal on.

Day 3

Korver had a little of a rough night and needed more pain medicine in order to stay asleep.

They took the IV out of his neck and wrist this morning which was a little painful for him but they gave him a little morphine and he was good to go.

About 1:30 today they moved him out of the ICU and up to the general care floor and he seems to like it!!!!!

The nurses said that if he continues to progress as well as he has been, that he may be able to go home on Monday. But we are not getting our hopes up until we here it from the Docs.

Day 2

Korver did really well last night. They only had to give him Morphine but did not have to sedate him to keep him asleep.

This morning they were able to take out the breathing tube and he is much happier now.

They came in this morning and did another EchoCardiogram and said the there is very little blood flowing through the device and that should stop in the next day or so. They had to pull back the bandage when they did it so I snapped a quick picture of the incision.

Later on in the day he was able to have some milk from a bottle and he couldn't have been happier.

I think he was trying to hide from the nurse so she would be nice to him

After his tummy was full he was very happy to see mom and dad.

This is a copy of his chest x-ray that shows the Amplatzer Device as well as the chest tube and some wires that are in place should they have a need to place him on a pace maker. They will probably stay on until he goes home.