ONE YEAR SINCE HEART SURGERY

Tomorrow (11/21) is a special day...one year since Maxwell's open heart surgery to repair his Tetralogy of Fallot (serious heart defect including ASD and VSD).

This surgery saved his life and transformed Maxwell into a MUCH stronger, healthier baby. Before the surgery, Max's body was really struggling with nearly every issue...from breathing in the 100s ALL the time to heartrates in the 200s. He was expected to require a trachestomy and was dealing with serious neurological "twits." Afterwards, he was an entirely different lil' man. It was incredible, absolutely incredible.

I remember feeling such a sense of peace going into that surgery. I just knew it was going to be successful. Perhaps I was calm because he had already endured so many surgeries or perhaps I was in denial. But I truly think my mommy instinct told me everything would be ok. His cardiac team was so impressed with him...they said they wished all their cardiac kiddos recovered as well as he did! :)

Here's a link to that post...pretty amazing change, isn't it???
http://maxupdate.blogspot.com/2005_11_20_maxupdate_archive.html