He's Still Amazing the Doctors

"Medically, I cannot explain how he is doing this well."

Since all this started with our son, there have been three times, by three different doctors, that we have been told something along the lines of the above quote. Last night my wife and I thought through everything that has happened - and how many times we should have lost our son.

• According to doctors, my wife should have been having seizures from her pregnancy-induced, extreme high blood pressure. That probably should have killed her and our son.
  
• Our son probably would have died from his heart defect if he had been delivered normally. The fact that my wife did not react to the blood pressure drugs and we were forced to have an emergency C-section probably saved our son's life.
  
• The hole in our son's heart that normally closes up very soon after birth did not close immediately. This gave doctors time to diagnose and treat him. He would have had to have emergency heart surgery to implant a stint if the hole had closed normally.
  
• Typically, a baby born as premature as our son would not even be eligible for the surgery that saved his life. His internal organs were apparently developed slightly beyond what they normally would have been in a child his age. We very easily could have been sitting in the hospital watching our son slowly suffocate.
  
• The arteries that feed oxygenated blood to his tiny heart were in just the right place for the surgery to be completely successful. The doctor was "surprised" by how well placed they were. He had expected substantial complications because they "normally wouldn't be that well placed."
  
• The doctor was also able to close our son's chest within an hour of the surgery. Typically, the swelling from this type of surgery is so bad that the child's chest has to be left open (covered by a piece of sterile pig's skin) for several days after the surgery. However, with our son, the swelling went down so much, so quickly, that they were able to close him up immediately. This drastically lowered the risk of infection.

The doctors have also been amazed at how quickly he has recovered. Our son has now had every life-assist machine, drainage tube, and intravenous tube removed, except for a "standard" IV and a "PIC Line" that they are keeping in place just in case they need to give him any emergency medicine.

We have also just learned that the surgeon considers him to be "fixed" to the point that he is trying to get us transferred back to a hospital in Tulsa. They had told us that our son would be in this hospital for at least three weeks after the surgery - it has been four days.

We will probably be transferred back to Tulsa the first part of next week. Our son will then be at a hospital in Tulsa until they are certain his gastrointestinal system is operating properly (one to two weeks). Then, we will finally get to bring our baby home.

God is good and He does work miracles as His saints pray. Our son is proof of that fact. Thank you so much to all of you who have been lifting our son up in prayer, and to those of you who provided various means of support to us through this whole ordeal. We can never thank you enough.

Originally posted at: http://meanderingaphorisms.blogspot.com/