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.

Saturday, October 01, 2005

In preparation for his surgery on Tuesday, Matthew had an �Upper GI� done yesterday to map out his digestive tract. When they put the Barium through his feeding tube Matthew refluxed it and had to have his mouth suctioned. After that the X-ray Tech came back in every 15 minutes to get a picture of the path the Barium was taking through his body.

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Grandma Sue8:37 AM
Blah! That tastes terrible. Don't these nurses have some See's candy stashed away someplace.

I love you Matthew and pray for you.

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

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