Late yesterday Gary met with the doctors from cardiac. During the baby's echo-cardiogram the doctors learned that they may be able to open the right side of the heart and hopefully make it partially functional. Once blood flows into the right side there is a chance it will grow. The baby was scheduled for the catheder surgery on Wednesday and would be the third surgery of the day which would be sometime in the afternoon. The baby's oxygen and glucose levels both plateaued at 80 which is perfect for a gestational diabetic and the oxygen level is considered very good for his heart condition.
I got a new nurse this morning in the labor and delivery unit where they are monitoring me and she is wonderful! She is so much more understanding of how hard it is being away from my baby and visitors and Gary bouncing back and forth from Children's. I have been starving since before the c-section and she brought me a menu so I could finally get some real food into my stomach. The nurse was also able to get permission to pull my catheter and get me out of bed and moving. This was extremely important to me because I needed to get moving so i could be moved to another floor and meet my baby and have visitors. The wonderful nurse let my friend Laura visit shortly before they moved me to the 8th floor at Brigham. Gary got me into a wheelchair and we headed upstairs. I think we made the fastest checking in ever, I got permission from my nurse to go visit the baby at Children's almost right away. I did refuse to name him until I could spend some time with him, and he was due to go into surgery sometime in the afternoon. There was no way he was not going to have a name and go into surgery. We went through the names Gary and I liked and I did not think he looked like a Grady, Grant or Sawyer so we named him Tucker David Watson (David after our friend Dave Johansen and Pam's brother, who died over 10 years ago from Wegeners Granulomatosis.).
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