Even Better

Yesterday, Friday the 25th, we showed up for our post operative appt. with Dr. Besky and Dr. Watts. We walked up to check in and we knew as soon as they started looking up our name that the Progressive nurses once again were living up to their reputation.
We were informed that we were suppose to be there the day before and that, imagine this, Dr. Watts would not be seeing us because he was already scrubbing in for surgery. Of course.

Well, since we informed the discharge nurse in Progressive when she gave us the date of Friday the 25th that that couldn't be correct because Dr. Watts ONLY has office days on Thursdays and that is the ONLY day he sees patients for office visits. She argued with us and said not in this case. We accepted what she said and went on. Only to bring us to Friday, June 25th and standing there looking like a bunch of a**holes and not being seen by our surgeon.

While we sat and waited to see what they wanted to do, Matt sat there and graciously sat in for the Progressive nurse who had discharged us and got ripped a new one since she couldn't be right there for me to share how I really felt about all of this.

I was so frustrated because we had to wake Cole up very earlier to be able to take medications and eat and get downtown in time for his 8:00 a.m appt. Cole threw up and we didn't have time to let his tummy settle for more medication and food. I changed him quickly put him in the carseat and met Gigi and PawPaw coming in to watch Ava. They had gotten up very early to get there in time for us to get downtown in morning work traffic by 8:00 a.m.

Dr. Bensky was there and said he could do everything. He said if Dr. Watts came back later and saw something he thought he needed to see us in person about, they would call. So off to another floor for a chest X-ray for Cole. He had to go back into the funky cylinder with a bicycle seat. We learned that the two halves that make up the cylinder can be adjusted for bigger babies and he didn't have to be squeezed into it painfully like the last tech had done.
Cole still was not happy about the whole process and let us all know. I held his sweet chubby hands above his head and tried to talk to him while he screamed at me. I wore the fashionable lead dress again for all of this.

We went back down to see Dr. Bensky and he came in and told us "everything couldn't look better." The heart is nice and small, no fluid around it. There is no murmur. He sounds great. He was happy with the way the incision and chest tube hole are healing.

ANDDDD, really good news about the cath. for the collateral arteries. He said he doesn't think they are enough of a threat to have to go in right now. They are planning on putting coils in when they do the automatic cath. before the 3rd stage surgery, which is in 2 or so years. He said if his oxygen levels start to go up or they notice more flow into the heart than they are comfortable with, they will go in before the 2 years.
We are so relieved for a break from surgeries! God has gone above and beyond answering prayers and we praise him for this!

Cole's oxygen levels were at 84/85 which is right where they want him at this stage, so we were thrilled with more good news.

Dr. Bensky feels confident enough that we can return to "normal" for us at this point. Ever since Cole has come along we have been forever changed about the hand washing and coming into contact with people or items in public. I will never be ready for Cole to get a cold or any type of sickness that lowers Cole's oxygen levels any lower than he lives at, but that's not reality.

So a great dr. visit and report and here is the little guy last night at his cousin Bella's birthday. Sorry about the read eye. Cole's eyes do something funky with the flash because we have pictures of he and Ava in the same picture and her eyes are fine and Cole's have the red. We threw in a picture of Ava for those that, this is their only way of being able to see the changes in Ava and Cole as they grow.