And we are ....cautiously optimistic

We spent a few hours again at DeVos on Tuesday. This time we took Grandpa and Grandma Sobel along. There is another new doctor at Spectrum that is also from England, this new doctor, Dr. Joseph specializes with Interventional Cardiac Catheterizations, (it is a procedure to treat the heart defect with using a catheter (small plastic tube) that goes to the heart from blood vessels in the legs or the neck.) Dr. Joseph reviewed Josie's pictures, and believes that quite possibly her defect might be able to be fixed through this procedure! Which would be excellent, recovery time is just 1 night in the hospital, and that would be about it! Which would be amazing. The only situation is that they will not know for sure if the they will be able to work using the heart catharization until they are actually performing the procedure...And because this Doctor is new to DeVos, he needs some time for his team to be up and running. Which means that we would have to wait until June or July for the procedure...So it would be a lot more waiting, but the waiting would be all worth it, if this would fix Josie.

As I posted we are cautiously optimistic, but because of this sudden turn in direction, we have been thinking we would for sure be facing open heart surgery since Feb. 27, we feel that it would be in our best interest to get a second opinion, we are heading to meet with a U of M doctor (Dr. Ron Grifka), in a GR clinic, on Wednesday, April 24th

Please pray for us that it is clear decision about the direction we should go...I am thankful for this hopeful news, and I beg for prayers in advance that the Interventional  Heart Catheterization wherever we have it performed is successful!

In the mean time, since we are not sure of the exact procedure date, I am no longer house bound :)! AMEN!  We are just enjoying the joys of Josie being almost 6 months old! She is just a joy, and as her little personality is growing, we are just loving the smiles that she brings us daily!

Newer equipment...

Josie will NOT be having her the heart catharization on Wednesday, it has once again been moved to a date that has not been determined yet....We are still meeting with the doctor that is going to be preforming the heart catharization on Tuesday to hear about his plan for the heart cath...but, he wants to wait to schedule the appt until the new equipment is in...

I think our robust Josie is moving the powers at DeVos to get the most up to date equipment :) Way to go Jose!

So please continue to pray for the team of surgeons, doctors, and nurses as they continue to study J's case, and make the best plan for her..