part 2

So going up to see Jacob was tough. He was swollen and is supposed to be getting more and more swollen for a good 24 hours after surgery. His body was having trouble clotting, so he was bleeding a lot out of his chest tube. He also has a little pace maker attached to his heart. The chest was left open in case of complications, the doctors and surgeons can get in there quickly to look and see what is wrong.

We had a few major scares. This has been the scariest, most confusing time of my life. Its hard to know what you should be doing and thinking. Over night the surgeon was called and the doctors opened up Jacob's chest to look around to see where the bleeding was coming from. But the surgeon did not have to come back in, he just talked to the doctors over the phone.

Next day, Friday, was even worse. Jacob's oxygen stats were in the low 40s. And he is on the highest setting for his respiratory machine. The machine is working fully for him. At 100% oxygen. He is not breathing at all on his own. They actually have him paralyzed, so his body won't have to work on anything else, but healing his heart. So his stats were dropping and all the doctors were coming from everywhere. Echos and x-rays were done. Again they had to open his chest band aid up. The surgeon was called. They found some blood clots in his body around the lungs, so the surgeon was debating if it would be safe enough for him to actually go into his body at this point, but he decided it would be too risky. I knew things weren't looking good when one of my favorite doctors who has been with us since the beginning was wiping tears from his eyes. They basically told me, there is nothing they can really do for him right now and we just need his heart function to improve. From the echo it was looking worse than ever.

Thankfully last night, he stabilized again. And overnight went well.

I will try to post more frequently because than I can give you more details because everything will be fresh in my mind.