Well, it’s been a tough week to say the least. Hudson has a pattern of having one really good day and the next day not so great. I guess we are expecting so much from him and want him well and ready to go home soon, but after all he’s had major open heart surgery […]
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Thank you all for your prayers! A few of our friends, family and church family have asked what they could pray for specifically. As most know, Hudson has been moved from Pediatric ICU (PICU) for critical care to Neonatal ICU (NICU) infant care yesterday around 1pm MDT which is a step in the right direction! […] A video clip of Hudson’s Journey so far… Mondays… This morning at around 915am MDT Hudson had a few heart arrhythmia’s and his blood pressure dropped. This happened about 30minutes after they pulled one of the many lines from him.. It was planned to pull the LA (lateral arterial) line this morning but I guess Hudson’s little body just didn’t like it. Now […] Hudson’s chest was finally closed because he’s dry and is no longer retaining the fluids from having surgery. Really, it has only been 3 days since he had surgery, but both Chris and I were just impatient and eager to have his chest closed because it’s just one step closer to recovery and being able […] For Hudson’s first operation (Norwood w/ Sano shunt), he had his ribs cut from his breastbone/sternum so they could operate on his little walnut-sized heart. After the operation, they leave his chest ‘open’ and just sew the skin over top for a few days until the swelling goes down so his “newly re-plumbed” heart doesn’t […] The day started early, woke up at 4:30 a.m. after not sleeping much, just thinking about his surgery and if it was really going to happen or was it going to be cancelled last minute due to other priority surgeries. His surgery was scheduled for 7:30a.m, therefore, I wanted to hold him before he went […] Hudson’s first (almost) 24 hours in PICU (Pediatric ICU) have been great. The words from the cardiac doctors are that he “is doing great and we’re not just saying that”. They are continuing to monitor his progress and expect to maybe close up his chest this weekend and by Monday or Tuesday be able to […] It’s Apr 22/10 2pm MDT and Dr Ross came down the corridor towards us and he looked relaxed. He came up to us and said everything went well and he’s happy with the surgery. We have heard nothing but good things about Dr. Ross and you can us to that list. He is very nice […] Hudson went into the Operating Room this morning at 7:30am MDT. He was carted off in his “temporary home” around the corner from the Neonatal ICU. This first procedure is called the Norwood Procedure with Sano Modification/Shunt Please pray that everything goes as planned and that God guides helps the surgeons hands and mind make […] It is amazing how much love you can feel for your child from the moment you find out your pregnant to the first time you see their little face, the love just intensifies and your in love forever and how you would do anything to protect this new little person placed in your arms for […] A lot of requests for some more pictures and sorry it’s taken so long, but here are a few! Click on the pictures to enlarge them if you want #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { Only an hour old and trying to get the IV out of his hand already 🙁 Cuddle time with mommy after being stabilized More cuddle time The “Stork” transport used to transport Hudson from Royal Alex to UofA The capsule portion Hudson would be in Group shot before being transported in the “Stork” 18hrs Old (Hayley too busy with Hudson to be part of the picture) Brother and Sister Love More Brother and Sister Love The hat Hayden and Hayley wore if you can see past the tubes and monitors Sleepy Time Vitals Monitor The “stuff” Hudson is getting through the tubes The $80,000 temporary home. Cuddle time with Daddy Cuddle time with Mommy Hanging onto Dad’s Thumb Hayden outside of NICU playing in the halls Grandma Segura (aka “Poyita” as Hayden and Hayley call her) We saw his eyes open for the first time today! Taking it all in This morning, Gabby spoke with the nurses and it sounds like Hudson’s first surgery will be this Thursday (April 22, 2010) first thing in the morning at 7:30am MDT unless there is an emergency surgery for someone else. Hudson is still doing well, but I can definitely see he is breathing harder from his stomach […] So it’s April 17th, two days after my precious little boy Hudson was born. I am now able to start writing again or perhaps just today. Time has never been so valuable as now. I only wish I was able to stay awake for 24hrs and my body be ok with that. Unfortunately, my body […] Hudson is now 3days 5hrs old as I write and the days are long. I’m finding that this is a lot more work than I expected. Every morning Hayden likes to wake up at 730am MDT (I guess he’s adjusted somewhat) and tell everyone it’s morning. Drawing the curtains and letting the sun shine brightly […] We just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for your prayers and comments. We couldn’t possibly respond to each and every one of them but we wanted to let all of you know that we are grateful that each and every one of you is following along. We especially appreciate your […] A video clip was posted on Facebook that I will also share here… This is about 18 hours after Hudson was born. Gabby and I were there around 1230am in the morning visiting until about 200am. After a short nap, Gabby and I took our moms and Hayden and Hayley to see Hudson for the […] It’s a boy! Hudson Jeremiah Torrens Hudson because it just sounded like a “strong” name. We wanted our child to have strength and knew our child would be strong throughout anything! Jeremiah because of Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not […] It’s 330pm MDT. She’s “3cm”. Lots of contractions, she’s really hungry… stressed and upset… she’s trying really hard not to take any drugs because she wants to recover as fast as possible so she can go to Stollery to see baby in NICU. She’s strongly considering epidural and a little hesitant about morphine. With Hayden […] I’m with Gabby in the Labour & Delivery Ward at Royal Alexandra Hospital… It’s 1:30pm MDT and Gabby’s contractions are 3min apart and about 35-45s long. Prayers for safe delivery & mom is kept safe & mom gets to bond with baby for a least a few minutes after birth depending on how he/she is […] Vote for a boy or girl in the right panel! Very thankful for the friends, family and church family we have. We could not have done anything without you all today and we just wanted to thank you for everything. A big thanks to The Kwiatkowskis, Simone, Dawn and Burl Hamm (I hope I spelled everyone names right) for helping us with the kids tonight. […] So Chris was nice enough to share my laptop with me before I go into super intense labour. Well what a day it has been. From the fact that I couldn’t sleep last night because there simply wasn’t a simple position that was comfortable and then to the fact that my water decided to break […] Apparently both grandma’s made arrangements at the same time separately to come out early and ended up on the same flight tonight… and they’ve found each other at the airport. They are both on their way… Wow! The kids and us will be thrilled to see them both 🙂 It’s 730pm MDT and we’re in the Royal Alexandra Hospital waiting… I’m sitting in room 3914 (station 39) in Women’s Hospital with Gabby. Early this morning at 130am MDT Gabby’s water broke. At the time we didn’t know or think it was her water that broke. I was frantically (but trying to keep a straight […] Gabby’s water broke (confirmed at the ObGyn office about 30 minutes ago) last night around 130am. We will have to go to the hospital today to prepare to deliver our little one. Please pray specifically for a safe delivery and mom is also safe during the delivery. She doesn’t have any contractions yet but if […] We’ll be testing out new Themes just to try out a few new things. The “Greener-Side” theme is fixed width and a little restrictive. Trying out a few variable-width Themes I can’t help but constantly think about Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) and the more I want to understand it. A lot of people ask “what is it?” and I have usually just pointed them to the wiki page although it’s sometimes really hard to just absorb the information that’s there so I thought to […] It’s Sunday night and we had an eventful day. I just remembered the time when I drove up at 9am last Friday morning to move in a load of stuff into the Ronald McDonald House. Driving up the street there were about 12 police cars including a police van and a whole bunch of officers […] I am feeling extremely pregnant today and am totally doing the waddle walk, I don’t remember ever doing it with the other two pregnancies but who knows. I think that at the end of each day I am just drained even if I do very little all day and I feel like I am going […] Today we have settled into our temporary home at the Ronald McDonald house. We were blessed to have been able to get in 3 days earlier than expected. It’s nice to finally feel a bit more stable and settled in. We’ve managed to unpack our things and organize, which I find important in my life […] Our fourth day in Edmonton and we got to meet the Multidisciplinary team at the Stollery Children’s Hospital, inside the University of Alberta Hospital. They are pretty much the team we will be dealing with through entire procedure of baby’s operation and stay at the hospital. We got to tour the hospital and the NICU […] I’m a guy and I like to fix things… I like to study what’s wrong with something and come up with a solution… The day we found out about our child having Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, surely something was overlooked and I could come up with some recommendation on how to “fix” this. I’ve gone […] So today was our first schedule appointment to have the Fetal echo done at the Royal Alexander Hospital which is equivalent to Womens’ hospital in BC. This is were all the women with high risk pregnancies deliver. Our appt was at 8:30a.m. we made it a bit late because didn’t realize it was rush hour […] Well we are finally here and made it without any problems whatsover, everything went really well and the kids behaved amazing. I think it helped tremendously having to travel in a motorhome vs a 4runner truck. The kids were able to move and play games, puzzles eat at a table and have their naps lying […] The day has finally come, we are actually going to be temporarily moving to Edmonton Alberta to deliver our third baby. So many last minute things and last minute packing. I felt like I had to leave everything in good order before we left in order to come back to normality. I guess I can […] We finally made it to Edmonton, I (and so did Gabby) tried posting something earlier but I lost it because the internet connection from the hotel is quite spotty. This time I’ll be sure to backup often. Anyways, Saturday was a hectic day as we tried to get some last minute tasks done. I had […] |
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