Team Travis: Saturday Afternoon Update

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Saturday Afternoon Update

Everything is quiet on the Travis front. We are still in the hospital and are still in line to leave on Monday at some time. Nicole found out this morning that when they remove the Trans Thoracic line that they have to do another X-Ray and Echo. That means that Monday might be a later departure time than we expect. We are not complaining, but we really can't wait to get home and get back to life at home. Travis is back to being his happy, happy self and that means life is good.

At least we know that Travis will be coming home and that is really the best thing. He recovered so quickly from the surgery and has definitely bounced back.

1 comment:

AnonymousMay 16, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Almost there Team Travis! You can do it! Sending lots of hugs, prayers, and love....muahhh! :)
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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.....