Were Home

Well after what felt like a full week at Dorenbecher, we got discharged and are finally home to enjoy the comforts of normal. So after our consult with Cohen's heart cardiologist who had good news for us. What we were told was Cohen's back to the condition that he was a month ago, which buys him time to get more to the three month mark for his open heart surgery. Even though were not done with going to Dorenbecher's were back home for know.  We'll be  taking it very easy and will probably keeping Cohen in a little bubble. So for now that is our situation and were back to the norm 

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Graves Family

Monday update for Cohen

Cohen is out of surgery and the surgeon was pleased with the progress they had made. He's currently undergoing a blood transfusion and still pretty sleepy. The nurses are keeping a close eye on him tonight and will be monitoring his vitals closely. Tomorrow Cohen will have a Heart echo to see how his heart is responding to the procedure. Sarah and I are pleased to see that he looks good even though he has tubes and all sorts of monitors hooked up to him. We were both on edge during the waiting period and were actually pretty good at concealing our true anxieties. We are very much pleased that he's back in his room with us. We are hoping that the appointment with Cohen's Heart Cardiologist goes well and that we'll be able to come back to Eugene in the next couple of days. We're also probably going to find out when Cohen will have his open heart surgery. For now that is where were at, and hope that this answer any questions that people might have.
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Adam, Sarah, Mia, and little Cohen

Cohen's update

Hello to all from the Graves family. For those who might not know are situation Sarah, and I had a baby boy on May 11th his name is Cohen Whitman. He was born with a congenital Heart disease. Cohen has Tetralogy of Fallot. In Lamens terms his heart has several abnormalities that prevent him from getting a proper amount of his blood oxygenated. To bring you up to date with where we are now. When Sarah went to a normal doctors visit with Cohen's pediatrician they noticed that is oxygen saturation was very low. So on Friday 6/26/09 Sarah, Cohen, and I drove up to Dorenbecher's Children's hospital faster then a average person's drive time. So we have been here since Friday and they've been monitoring Cohen to see what his Saturation is like through-out the day. So far Cohen has been the same to us, not much difference that is visible. On this Monday Cohen will undergo a procedure which involves having a catheter inserted through his leg and feed up to his heart. They will run some tests and then feed a very tiny balloon into his Pulmonary valve and inflate it to open it up. This will allow more blood to make it to his lungs. This procedure is hopefully going to buy Cohen some extra time before having to undergo open heart surgery to have a total heart repair. We are scheduled to have this procedure preformed this Monday 6/29/09 at 8am. It will take about two hours to preform, and he'll be under close observation for another two hours or so. We are told that he'll be in our arm's shortly after that. So that is where we are at this point. Sarah and I appreciate everyone's concern and support. I'll be updating this blog as soon as i can with an update when i can.
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The Graves Family