Archive for October, 2006



Spooky Halloween ‘06

Here are the 2006 Halloween pics.
Megan was Glenda the Good Witch at Ms. Karen’s; and Cinderbella (as she says it) here at home. Will was dressed as a knight (for about five minutes) before he started melt down. As usual, Mark & Karen have outdone themselves with the decorations. Mark’s mad scientist lab freaked […]

First days home

The first few days home have been great. Will has already been to his cardiologist, Dr. Carol Cottril, and his regular pediatrician. And luckily, both visits went great. The cardiologist even commented that according the EKG computer, his heart appeared completely normal - like he never had surgery at all. That was great news. We’ll […]

We’re home!!!

I never thought we’d be so happy to see the KY state line. Will had a great couple of days. He’s been off the O2 since about 5:30am yesterday and passed his car seat challenge this morning. Those were the last two things on his discharge list.
I can’t thank you guys enough for all of […]

Look ma, no tubes!

We came into the hospital this morning with a good feeling and were floored with Dawn, our nurse, said that the O2 tube is gone. Will has been breathing successfully on his own for a couple of hours now. We had almost forgotten what he looked like before surgery. He is a handsome boy […]

Post Op day 5

Well, it looks like we’ll be here at least one more night. And that’s not too bad. It’s just five days after surgery. Will is still eating well and if we could wean him off of the oxygen we’d be able to go home. The funny thing is that he’s not on enough O2 to […]

Post Op day 4

We are blessed with one amazing little boy. He has started eating so well that they removed his feeding tube last night. He still likes the oxygen though. It’s not a huge deal, but we’d rather seem him thrive without it. His O2 numbers should be in the mid-90’s or above - and they are […]

Heading home soon!

I’m not sure I believe it; but if all goes according to plan we’ll be heading home on Sunday. Dr. Eghtesady just stopped in and said that everything was going well and he was happy with how Will was healing.
I’ve just uploaded nine new pictures. They have removed his pacing wires (blue wires coming from […]

Post Op Day 3

We have a good night on the Step Down floor last night. There are even rumors that we may be able to go home this weekend, but that kinda freaks me out a little bit. I just want Will to be healed and ready to roll. The doctors and nurses are used to these cases, […]

New pics & less tubes…

I just uploaded some post surgery pics of Will. You can see him when he’s all tubed up.
They just removed the IV line in his foot. The only thing he’s on right now is O2 (and just barely). He’s also got a feeding tube to “force” all of the milk he can’t drink on his […]

Megan at the beach

Here’s a video of a pregnant Pam with Megan at the beach in August of this year.