The Next Few Months...

Malachi is wearing an eye patch to help his vision. He was diagnosed with Amblyopia (lazy eye) a few months ago. He now has to wear a patch over his good eye four hours a day to help strengthen his lazy eye. He looks pretty cute in it, as always. :o) Unfortunately, he does have to have surgery to correct his vision problems. They will go in and cut his optic muscle and reattach it to straighten the eye. This is normally a simple outpatient procedure, and will be done possibly during his heart surgery in October. He also has to have his tongue snipped from the bottom of his mouth because he is tongue tied. (This is also a simple procedure and will possibly be done during heart surgery.)

Malachi is scheduled for a Heart Cath on Thursday, September 3rd. It is his Pre-Fontan Cath. This will be to measure the pressures in his heart and check his Pulmonary Artery that is narrowed. This allows the surgeon to know "what he's getting into," so to speak. After the Cath we should hear when his Heart Surgery will be scheduled. (Probably Mid-October.)

Then he will go in for his heart surgery, which can take anywhere between 6 - 8 hours. We anticipate the longer timeframe, as Malachi has a lot of scar tissue that needs cleared away and he will have his Pulmonary Artery cut and grafted with artificial tissue. We also anticipate a long stay in the hospital, at least two weeks. (We are preparing for the longer, in hopes for the shorter!) After the surgery we pray it is the last one.

We have learned a lot about our Savior through all of this. He has been a Constant in our life. A Sustainer, and a Protector through it all. We don't look forward to the next few months, but we trust that God is taking care of us, as always. We pray that we learn all we can the first time!

Thanks to all who read the blog and pray for Malachi and our Family. We are so blessed!

Love and hugs,
April for all

More pics...


A picture of God's handiwork! I love his little chest!