Christopher’s Journey.

Its 8am and we meet up with Cardiac surgeon Dr Y.D., a French Speaking Belgian,who discusses the routine of installing the BT Shunt and then meet the British Anaesthetic Doctor (Chris is getting a very multi cultured experience here in Melbourne). We go back to the ward and find Chris wide awake and taking everything in. He is too cute!! At 9.15am we walk down with him o the Operating Theatre holding room and say our goodbyes to him. He was still awake and didn’t make a peep of a sound on the trip down or when we said goodbye to him. He is such a calm little baby, let’s hope that doesn’t change when we get him home!

At 1.30pm, we get a call from the surgeon to sat that the Shunt is in and everything went well and we will be able to seem him in the Paediatric ICU in about an hour. We receive another call about 2pm, to say that his blood oxygen levels plummeted and they will need to go in again and go on heart by-pass briefly to adjust the shunt. At 3.30pm we are informed that the BT Shunt has been shortened and he was on by-pass for 6 minutes. They are leaving his chest open with a dressing over it, which they will close up once he has been stable for 24 hours. This basically means that Christopher had 2 operations today. Its 5pm once we get to PICU and see more tubes and IV’s that we have ever seen before in Chris’ little body. I think it would of been a terrible shock if he hadn’t started off in NICU since birth.