31 May Recap
Keegan had a good, quiet day today with a short energy spurt in the morning, a nice nap, and about as much energy as one can have without leaving a hospital bed this afternoon. The energy spurts go as quickly as they come, so we...
May 2011
30 May On the floor
Keegan made it to the recovery floor just after noon today. He is doing very well considering what he's been through. He had some good stretches of energy an was in a fairly good mood. I will update with more tomorrow, just wanted to put...
29 May Doing well
Just a quick note to say the surgery went well, much smoother than anyone was really expecting, I think. Keegan is doing well too. I am pretty confident that he will go back to the cardiac floor tomorrow afternoon after his femoral and arterial lines...
28 May Out of surgery
Keegan is in the CVICU. Went very well. All were pleased. Will update again soon. We know it was your prayers that carried him through. Thank you so very much. - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone...
28 May 10:35am
They are beginning removal of the line now. Had to go in through his ribcage, which was what we anticipated would happen. They placed two more central and arterial lines that we did not plan on. He is stable & not on bypass at this...
28 May In OR
Keegan has been in the OR since 8:30am. All surgeons should be there and starting diagnostics & planning by now. We will get updates from OR as they go along. First update should be within an hour once they decide with what method they...
28 May Surgery postponed to tomorrow
You may have seen our updates to Twitter or Facebook that Keegan's surgery will be postponed until tomorrow morning at 8am. His transplant surgeon, Dr. Kristine Guleserian, will be coordinating and leading the surgery to remove his port. She has been planning, researching, and assembling...
27 May Surgery
Keegan will be going into emergency surgery this evening. His CT scan showed that the catheter of his port has eroded from the vein it should be in into the subclavian artery. We don't exactly know how this happened. All we know is that it...
27 May Already?
I had a gut feeling that we were gearing up for a long fight. I guess I was hoping it wouldn't start until next week! Keegan woke up with 102.9 degree fever yet again this morning. This is the fourth episode of fever this month,...
26 May Difficult
The best word I can find to describe things right now. Difficult. Difficult to process. Difficult to understand. Difficult to explain. Difficult to accept.Without getting into too much detail right this moment, a lot has changed in our picture in the last few days. Keegan's...