BUMMER!!

Well, we figured it was going to happen.... and it did. Surgery has been postponed. This morning Alex woke up with a little bit of a runny nose. He is acting fine and is happy, but things can change fast with these little kids. So, we are staying on the side of caution and going to reschedule him. As of right now he has been rescheduled for September 7th. After an upper respiratory infection they prefer a 4 week recovery time before doing surgery. We will watch him over the weekend and if his symptoms don't progress I will call back to see if we can do it sooner.

If we were to proceed with the surgery tomorrow and his syptoms worsen, there are a lot of complications that can come from that. His time on bypass (during surgery) is more difficult, including coming off of it, the amount of time that he will have the breathing tube in will increase, his ICU stay will be longer and more difficult, which in turn will make his hospital stay longer. His chest will be really sore, so his ability to cough and clear any secretions is decreased which makes him more likely to develop pneumonia.

The nurse practitioner that I talked to this morning said that she really felt like we should wait. Even though his symptoms are mild, his exposure to Sam and I and his runny nose is enough to cause us to worry. She said she's be willing to have us come and draw blood and she would look at him, but we hate to put him through anything he doesn't need to go through.

We are at peace with this. It is a huge pain..... but we know it's for the best. Gary will have to reschedule things at work, he has a week long conference in Minnesota on September 17th, which is questionable if he will even make it there. Our plans are not as important as His plans, and we know that He is over all!

Thank you to all of you who have offered to help and bring meals and prayed and fasted. We hope those prayers will continue, and we know all will be well! We will prepare and do this all again in another few weeks. Until then, I will keep updating on where we are at. Thank you again!!!


(Our computer at home has frozen up and we are afraid is dying. Luckily Gary was able to borrow a laptop from a friend at work and hope we can keep using this until we figure out what to do with ours. So, until things are figured out, no pictures :( )