***Updated Below*** Tomorrow is Hudson's big Surgery

[dogfan1]

Now in Recovery! Thanks guys and gals for the prayers. I have always been able to count on you.

[Razorback]

Now in Recovery! Thanks guys and gals for the prayers. I have always been able to count on you.

AWESOME! Hope he heals fast and fully!!!!

[dogfan1]

Hudson has been extubated, and he is doing sooooo soooo good, he just woke up for a split second and said “I wanna get outta here” and went back to sleep”

[Cottontop]

Great news!! Glad he is doing so good.

[dogfan1]

He's in pain but wakes up every hour and says "Get me orange juice now please." LOL He is at least putting please on his demands now. Will be in CVICU until maybe tomorrow and then moved to a recovery room. His Dad will not leave him until he goes home. His Mom has 2 sisters to take care of at night.

From Matthew Barnett
Morning update:
Stats are good, o2 at 85ish, they want it to be at 88-92 or higher. The hole in the side of his heart is a little bigger so that’s why his sats are lower than expected but they are much better than normal.
He is still in and out of sleep waking up for 30-90 seconds seems like every 20 minutes, screaming out for a drink, saying “give me orange juice now please” in that order and it’s so funny
Overall he’s doing great, he will most likely stay in here till tomorrow or Thursday from what they are seeing

[dogfan1]

Things are not looking good. This is from his Mom just now:

Hudson is not doing good. His kidney numbers are extremely high. He is retaining fluid. The right side of his heart is not wanting to work and staying stiff. They are about to administer heart failure medication. Please pray for my son.

The right side of his heart is all that was working. This is not good news. Big Change from this morning and not for the good.

[beaver gal]

God, please help Hudson. He's so precious that it's just heartbreaking.

[Comanchealumni06]

God be with Hudson! Hang in there little guy! Praying for good news!

[dogfan1]

Hudson won't quit and I will not quit him! Show your power Lord!
From My son Matthew:

Night 2, last update for today. First and foremost thank you everyone for the love and support through this all, my son deserves it so so much! Today was a bit of a rough day for Hudson. During surgery, he was on bypass, and his heart lost blood, and right now, his right ventricle(his only ventricle) is inflamed, and tough and not retaining blood well. So therefore his kidneys are not working properly, so all the medicine, his body is retaining and putting him through the ringer. To fix this, they have put him on Milrinone to help the heart relax, while keeping his heart on a pacemaker for the atria of his heart, which sends a signal to the top to work and the bottom or the ventricle of his heart is pumping correctly but it takes the pacemaker to make this happen perfectly. This is a normal thing for his condition and this surgery, so then his heart will pump correctly to the kidneys, which will help his body process the fluid and medicines correctly and bring baby boy back to recovery. Right now they also have him on insulin cause his blood sugar is wayyy high right now, and they have to test him every hour. Since the pacemaker and the medicine he has been so much more peaceful and calm, because earlier he was screaming out for us and even though we are right there a foot away it’s like he can’t see us, and was screaming in fear and occasionally in pain. I pray tonight he can rest all night with minimal pain outbursts and tomorrow is an amazing day recovering for him!! My heart hurts so bad for my son, and i would lay down and give him my heart in a New York minute just to get him back to normal, the movie John Q hits home for me, whatever it takes for my son, he will get.
Please know his surgeon came by and reassured us that this happens with HLHS babies after the Fontan, he said he hates the fontan and so do the patients but he said this is normal.

[Cottontop]

Still in my thoughts and prayers Bobby. The Good Lord is in control.