Oliver Update! Oliver and Annie turned 3 last week! Oliver's development has been great and you wouldn't notice that he has had any issues with his heart other then he gets out of breath faster than Annie.  We are hoping that this next surgery will help increase his blood oxygen levels and give him a little more stamina. After our last cardiologist appointment and discussions with Children's, they have decided that this summer would be a good time to do the third surgery (Fontan). 

June 14 - Oliver will have a cardiac catheterization procedure where they will send some wires down into his heart to measure pressures in the heart and examine the blood vessels. They also want him to wear a Holter monitor while we are there to get some good readings on his heart functions. This is all expected to be done on the 14th and we will most likely come home that night.

July 31 - Fontan procedure.  They will be disconnecting his inferior vena cava from his heart and reconnecting it to the pulmonary artery so that the returning blood flow from the lower half of his body will be passively flowing to his lungs instead of to his heart. This is what they did to the superior vena cava for the upper half of his body in the previous surgery (Glenn). We will be at the hospital on the 30th for consultations and getting ready for the surgery and then the surgery will actually take place on the 31st. They have told us that the average hospital stay for this procedure is about 2 weeks. They want to make sure he is recovering and healing well before sending him home.

As always, we will try to provide updates as we can and we are most thankful for your thoughts and prayers for Oliver during this time.