Surgery Set

                                                          Tyson in a good moment!


Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has moved up Tyson's open-heart surgery. He is now set for Monday morning.

The bad news is he is showing signs of heart failure and his growth has fallen off the charts. They call it "failure to thrive."

The good news is the surgeon is confident he can fix my boy and get him on a better path.

For all my belly aching about appointment changes, when I did talk to him, he was very nice, professional and assuring. He said he has done several of these types of surgeries and he feels like this will be a success.

Dr. Roosevelt Bryant is new to Cincinnati. He was recruited here out of Minneapolis. He has a great resume, so I am hopeful. My boy's life is in his hands.

The surgery will be 5 to 6 hours with Tyson on a heart-lung machine for about half of that. Recovery will be a week or two, if everything goes well. Follow up surgeries are possible, but he said not a definite.

He'll likely still be on the high-calorie formula and fed through a tube for awhile. I am going to talk that over with the nutritionist. They need to understand this food is really tearing up his belly and making him uncontrollably cranky.

But, of course, we will do whatever necessary to get him healthy.

I'll try to post some things on Facebook as Monday progresses. If you think about it that day, send a good thought Tyson's way.