Link's LONG Dr's apt!!

Link went in for an apt. at Primary's to get an upper GI (for his acid reflux) at 2:00 Thursday... 22 hours later he was discharged from the CICU (cardiac Intensive Care Unit).

Russ took Link to his apt to get an upper GI so that the Dr.'s could prescribe something better for his acid reflux because the zantac wasn't working. Something was wrong with the machine so they couldn't do it for about a half hour so Russ decided he would go to Cardiac and get Link's Oxygen Stats checked. He statted at high 50's, low 60's (a normal baby or person like you or me should be statting in the 90's. They want Link to be statting between 75 and 85 so he was statting very low). So they strapped him up to oxygen, did an echo (ultrasound) on his heart, and said that he was staying the night. The ultrasound showed that his shunt was starting to clog up so he wasn't getting as much blood flow through the shunt. He did well with oxygen throughout the night and... we had been giving him the WRONG DOSE of Zantac so they upped the Zantac and he did MUCH better (HORRIBLE parents, I know, but it was really a tender mercy because if his tummy wasn't hurting so much we wouldn't have gone to Primary's and found out that his stats were so low and wouldn't have been able to get oxygen on him). They tried setting up an appointment with the Cath lab today (they would go INSIDE him with a catheter, dye the blood, etc. to get the BEST look at his heart) but the cath lab was full today so they sent us home (with oxygen).

The plan is to come back in a week or two and do the cath lab to get the best view of his heart and do a "Pre-Glenn" of his heart. Then the Dr. told us that we need to do the Glenn surgery sooner than later- probably when he is around 4 1/2 months old (in a month and a half).

He was such a trooper the entire time we were there.