Home for the Holidays

Keegan is home!!! He was discharged today at about noon. Here is a basic recap of the past week.

Many of you know that we were fighting our insurance, because they were refusing to pay for Keegan surgery. Keegan had pre op on Monday, and at 11:46 am we got a call from the Medical Group Commander, telling us that TRIcare had approved Keegan's surgery. After a long week of fighting, is was nice to hear that everything was going to be covered.

Keegan needed to have a cardiac MRI done before he went into surgery, to get better pictures of where the surgeon needed to reduce. For a cardiac MRI you need to have a breathing tube, which means Keegan needed to be sedated and then on anesthesia. So the plan was to have the MRI done in the morning right before surgery, and after go straight to the OR, or the CICU if the OR wasn't ready yet.

Due to poor planning with Children's Hospital, Keegan was schedule for an 8:30 am MRI, but didn't actually get in until almost 1 pm. Poor Keegan was so hungry, because he had not eaten anything since the night before. They finished the MRI about 3 pm and the OR was ready for him.

Everything went very smoothly during surgery. We got to talk with the surgeon after, and he was very happy with the results of the surgery. Even his cardiologist was very happy with how Keegan looked after surgery. We finally got to see Keegan in the CICU at 8:30pm. It was difficult to see him, but I know that the surgery will improve his life.

Keegan recovered from surgery very quickly. They removed his breathing tube, 3 chest tubes, and his central neck IV, within the first 24 hours. He was drinking fluids and was awake later in the day. On the second day, they removed his arterial IV and moved him out of the CICU. This was less than 48 hours out of surgery!

He continued to do better every hour. He was more awake and eating. He started to smile and watch his favorite cartoons, (Dora and Diego.)

Keegan was discharged from the hospital today at noon. He is crawling around and playing. He is also eating more, and is in a good mood. I believe he is happy to be home. I know I am. Courtney was very happy to see us again. It has been a long hard week, but God has kept us safe and strong.

We want to say a big, THANK YOU, to everyone who has been praying for us. Keegan has had such an amazing recovery and I know that is because so many wonderful people are praying for him. We ask that you please continue praying that Keegan will continue to do as great as he has been. We also want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! We are so happy to be home for the holidays!

1st picture was right out of surgery
2nd picture is of Nathan and Keegan right before the took the breathing tube out
3rd is Keegan right after the breathing tube was taken out
4th is Keegan right after he was moved out of the CICU, 2 days after surgery
5th is Keegan on Friday December 21, "hanging out"
6th was taken this morning, right before discharge. If you know my kids, you know that they hate to wear clothes, thus the naked baby.