A week of from school means a road trip to Idaho! This time we took a different route because Marianne's nephew Cameron had open heart surgery. I canceled all my patients and we left for Colorado a little early. Poor little guy is only 9 years old and spent 17 hours in surgery. He had several problems and it wasn't an easy fix for the doctors, but he is doing better and showing improvement everyday. Basically his coronary artery was as small as a needle when it should be more the size of a pencil, his aortic valve was not functioning properly so they cut out his pulmonary valve and used that for his aortic valve, and then they placed a cows valve in place of his pulmonary valve. After such a long procedure his heart had to be placed on a pacemaker because it wasn't working normal. Before we left Colorado the heart had began beating on its own. There was still a block to the ventricles, so the pacemaker was only being used to coordinate the ventricles into rhythm with the atrium. Doctors are hopeful that he will be out of ICU within the week and he will be able to go home soon.
We left Colorado and came home to Rexburg and the drive was really nice! We had a lot of fun taking in the sights and loving the mountains! The pictures above are along the Hoback river in Idaho. The kids did really well in the car and we were grateful for that because we almost had 30 hours in the car after going through Colorado, a total of 1830 miles to get home! Eck! It was a lot of fun to make it home in time to say happy Mother's Day to my mom and Marianne's Mom, and especially fun to have a good Sunday dinner with all my brother's that are in Rexburg. We look forward to spending more time with family and catching up!
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It was a real treat for me to have someone home for mothers day! This rarely happens so thank you Sky and Marianne for surprising me again for Mothers Day! The pictures are beautiful and amazing, as so are you! Love you so very much! Welcome home!
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