Update 29

Surgery is Scheduled

Well everyone, we have a surgery date. Thaddeus is doing very well but we are approaching that four month time frame that the doctors look for. At our request, since it won't matter to Thaddeus, they are scheduling surgery for right after school is out. So, Lord willing, we will go in to the clinic at 6:30 AM on June 6th. They will do some tests on Thaddeus to make sure he is up for the surgery. Assuming everything will come out fine, they have scheduled surgery for June 7th. The recovery time is usually about a week to ten days. We are going to try and get back into the Ronald McDonald House again, and maybe dive up the kids between various relatives and us, otherwise one of us will go home and one will hang out.  After this surgery, he may be still on oxygen but hopefully only for about a month or so. He will still be on a blood thinner, probably for life, but he should be off the other medications. He is currently over 13 pounds and is gaining an average of an ounce a day.

We did have some folks form the Fond du Lac county Birth to Three program come out and evaluate Thaddeus to see if there is any developmental delay. They felt that he had about a 17% delay. This is actually a good thing in my mind from the stand point that this is a small enough delay to not be overly concerning, but a large enough one that they will come out and evaluate him again after his next surgery.  We went and had some family pictures taken back on my birthday. Enjoy!    

 

All Six

 

Quintin with Thaddeus