March 21- We have an answer!!!

We know what's wrong with Will! He has a vascular ring, which basically means that a blood vessel from his heart grew in the wrong direction and wrapped around his trachea. This puts pressure on his airway and causes it to collapse when he's extubated. The bad news is that the only solution is a pretty major surgery. The good news is that this is not an uncommon condition and it can be fixed. They can't do the surgery in Augusta because they don't have a pediatric cardiologist on staff right now, so we'll have to go to Egleston. We think they'll transfer him on Sunday which means we'll spend another day in Disgusta. Luckily some of our friends came into town today to visit family, so we have someone to distract us when we're not at the hospital (which my friend described as a "futuristic baby farm!"). Beats hanging out in the hotel room! Hays is still doing great. They took him off the nasal canula last night and he's been breathing on his own all day! We can't wait to get home and see him breathing like a big boy! Everyone pray that we get Will to Egleston on Sunday so we can get this surgery out of the way and work on getting our boys home.