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.
Thanks
The Graves Family
Sunday, June 28, 2009
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We're thinking of Cohen during these next few hours, and are praying for the best with this procedure. We love you!
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