Surgery is first thing Thursday morning

Mason's surgery is considered first case Thursday morning. We have to be at the hospital at 7:30, with his surgery beginning around 8:30. The surgery is expected to take 4-5 hours. So please keep Mason in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow morning! Making it past what is considered to be the final planned surgery of this entire process is a huge achievement for HLHS babies. So please keep Mason in your prayers.

Aside from the standard surgery they will be correcting a narrowing in his aorta that they discovered in this morning's cath. He also has an additional vein in or around the heart that they are going to check out as it has gotten bigger in the last 2 years. They don't know how it will react to this next surgery and they may have to obstruct it or something like that.

Mason was admitted to the hospital tonight but they gave us a pass so we could take him back to the Ronald McDonald house for the night. The bed is still at the hospital if we need it. He still has an IV line in so they don't have to poke him again in the morning. He is sound asleep right now from what happened today. He misses and loves you all. Again thanks for the continued support. It has meant a lot.