Matthew's Blog

One boy's long road to recovery. Matthew was born two months premature with a rare fourfold heart defect known as Tetralogy of Fallot with Pulmonary Atresia and MAPCA's, and Ventricular Septal Defect. He's had two open heart surgeries and will need additional heart surgeries in the future. To appreciate the absolute miracle of this "3 plus million dollar boy", you'd need to look into the "Archives" beginning after his first 9 hr open heart surgery at Stanford, August 2005.

Thursday, September 01, 2005

First thing this morning we were told that Matthew had a great night. The pressure settings on his CPAP were turned down overnight from 10 to 7 (no significance for you and me other than lower is better) and his oxygen settings were down to 45% (21% is room air that you and I breath). There is even talk of moving him out of the Intensive Care Unit and upstairs to a more intermediate care wing of the hospital next Tuesday.

3 comments:

Grandma Sue6:13 AM
The happiness on both of their faces says it all. Keep up the good work Matthew. You're getting stronger each day.

Love Grandma Sue
ReplyDelete
Replies
Auntie Kim1:34 PM
It sounds like I may have to start a Who-aholics Anonymous as many of us are addicted to the blog site. What a beautiful picture of Mommy and Matthew.
ReplyDelete
Replies
Anonymous2:39 PM
I love this picture too
Wish I could remember my password, duh
ReplyDelete
Replies

Add comment

We never get tired of hearing how cute Matthew is. Go ahead :-)and tell us all about it!!

Let us know you came by.