Hayes arrived at Sutter Hospital on 5/13 at 6pm. He was stable and another Ultrasound was ordered. Sarah and Hayden met with Dr. Nazaroft, a surgeon, who scheduled the corrective surgery for NEXT Thursday.
Around midnight, the family left the hospital, we were all feeling that Hayes was in good hands, has a healthy cry, good coloring, actively sucking on Sarah's sugar-water fingers and looks like a healthy baby.
Things changed...
Even after trying for several hours, the kind staff at Sutter wasn't able to get another IV into Hayes little body. Around 2am, Dr. Nararoft called over to Sarah and Hayden to let them know he needed to put in a femoral IV. Since it took so long, Hayes developed acidosis (build up of acid waste in the blood) and Dr. Nazaroft decided to sedate Hayes and give him medicine to paralyze him and make him comfortable. The medicine that keeps the valves open has the nasty side effect of stopping breathing, so as a precaution, Hayes was put on a ventilator, as well. The doctors also mentioned that being ventilated is easier on infants than adults.
The IV insertion went well. Hayes is on medicine for his heart, keep the valves open, foods and fluids. Hayes wasn't tolerating this as well as they wanted, and so the Dr is transferring Hayes to Stanford on 5.14. feeling he could perform the surgery soon there. Stanford has a world class pediatric cardiac unit and Dr. Nararoft has a partner he works with there, so Hayes will continue to be in great hands.
Sarah went and visited Hayes before the transfer began. She is extremely positive about the way he looked, aside from the fact he is sedated.
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