Today's Surgery - Updated

 A few minutes before the team left the surgeon decided to install a permanent pace maker. (As a side note there is a chance that Jackson's heart could recover at some point and the pace maker would be removed.) I can see the wisdom in this even though it left us a little stunned.

The reality is that 6 weeks ago we received a call to come see Jackson one last time. Now, with help from a little machine, we make one more step toward taking our little boy home. This is great mercy.

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Today Jackson will go in to receive permanent pacing leads (but no pace maker yet) and have his chest closed. We will post updates as we receive them. Also, we would like to ask for prayer for a really sweet couple we met in the NICU. Their son also has Transposition of the Great Arteries, and he will have surgery today also.

"Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you." - Psalm 33:22