Team Travis: Home Sweet Home

Monday, May 17, 2010

Home Sweet Home

After several hours of waiting for paperwork, tests, medicine and several other things hospitals do, we got to go home. We are so happy to be home. Travis looks like a million bucks and it really feels like nothing even happened to him.

Thank you to all of the people that put Travis in their prayers and thoughts. We really feel the love and support and appreciate all of the things people did for us.

All locked up and ready to go. Travis and family are homeward bound

Mommy and Travis happy to be going home.

Travis and Nicole on there way out of the hospital.

Travis was all dressed up and ready to go.

Travis was all smiles as we were waiting to be discharged.

Mommy when do we get to go home?

I am going to call for help to get out of here.

Travis got to meet one of the hospital dogs on his last day.

Travis was wore out after waiting for his discharge papers.

2 comments:

BreeMay 17, 2010 at 7:49 PM
Hurray!!! I'm so glad he's finally home! I cannot get over how adorable he is. And those big beautiful eyes and precious smile melt my heart. I'm so happy to hear he's doing well.
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calieli75May 17, 2010 at 8:19 PM
Yeah!!!
I'm so happy you're back home!!!
God bless you.
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Travis Gary DiCarlo

Travis Gary DiCarlo, first son of Roger and Nicole DiCarlo, was born at San Diego Kaiser Hospital, October 23, 2009 with a Congenital Heart Defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, or HLHS. The short explanation is that Travis was born with only half of a heart. In order for him to live, a series of three operations were planned.

Due to an infection, Travis had to have an additional open heart surgery to insert pulmonary artery bands on October 29, 2009. He had his Norwood Surgery on November 21, 2009. He was sent home on December 14, 2009 from Rady's Children Hospital of San Diego after spending his first 52 nights of life in the hospital.

After being home for several months, Travis was due to for his next surgery in the plan, the Glenn procedure. But the life of a cardiac kid can change in an instant and life doesn't always go as planned. Due to the anatomy of his heart and some rhythm issues, Travis had what the surgeons called Norwood part 2. They replaced his Sano Shunt with a bigger one, enlarged his pulmonary arteries and installed a pacemaker. This surgery was performed on May 3, 2010. Travis went home on May 17th, 2010.

Around Travis' first birthday in October his cardiologist detected some narrowing in his pulmonary artery and ordered a heart cath. The heart cath showed extensive narrowing in his aorta and his pulmonary artery. On February 17, 2011 Travis had his 4th open heart surgery. He was doing well with recovery until he suddenly went into cardiac arrest on Friday (2/18). After two hours of CPR Travis was placed on ECMO (a heart/lung bypass). Although his heart did begin to beat again on its own, his brain was damaged during the whole ordeal and he lost all brain function. We had to say goodbye to our beautiful boy on Saturday, February 19th. We miss our boy terribly.....