Post-op day #1

Jackson is continuing to recover from surgery. These critical time periods are so difficult in terms of updates-his status is being invasively monitored continuously and varies constantly. Overall, he is doing well! His little heart is now pumping oxygenated blood, and his oxygen saturations are hanging out at 100%! Some things to pray about--his heart is currently out of rhythm on its own, so it is being paced to maintain the right rhythm. This can just be part of the heart's normalization process after surgery or could possibly be a result of a valve being negatively effected during surgery. Pray that this might correct itself in the next few days. Also his body is still shifting fluids to the wrong places as a result of the general trauma of a major surgery. Pray his fluid status might be corrected. If he is doing well enough overall then they plan to surgically close his chest tomorrow. Right now it is open to allow room for tissue swelling. It is emotionally difficult to see him with his incision, as well as being extremely swollen from fluids. But...he is on the other side of surgery and his heart is working. How can we do anything but rejoice?