Monday, March 24, 2008

March 24- Next stop on the tour of NICU's- Egleston!

Will made it to Egleston today!!!! He took his second helicopter ride in a week, and made it to Atlanta around 1:00 today. That kid likes to travel in style! Matt and I had to go by camry, so it took us three hours. Will settled in pretty well and was wide awake when we got there. He was seen by the cardiologists and had another echocardiogram done. The doctors said that his surgery would be really straightforward and would be minor as far as heart surgery is concerned. He's having an MRI tomorrow to map out exactly how they'll do the surgery. We aren't sure what day they'll do it, but we hope it's soon. The doctor said they expect about a week of recovery time and if all goes well, they'll ship him back to St. Mary's. We are thrilled that Will is finally there. We really liked all of the doctors and nurses that we met, and the facility itself is great. Plus it's much easier having him in Atlanta because we have family there that can check on him when we're not there. After we left Atlanta, we burned up the road back to Athens to pick up Mason and spend a few minutes with him until I had to rush over to St. Mary's to see Hays. It was so good to finally see all of my boys in one day!!!! Mason was happy to see us and told us all about what the Easter Bunny brought him. And Hays seemed happy to see me. He was wide awake when I got there and mad because his feeding was a little late. But we had a good little cuddle time and I was so proud to see him breathing all by himself. His echocardiogram results were fine, so yay Hays!!! Matt and I are worn out- Matt just pointed out that we went to three different hospitals today- the NICU trifecta. Good grief!! So we're going to figure out our plan for tomorrow and go to sleep!

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