huck's heart

We decided to start a blog to keep you updated on huckster heart surgery tomorrow.  The highlights:

• What?  Huck has Wolff Parkinson White Syndrome.  Basically h so heart has an an extra pathway that causes some big trouble for him.
• How did we get here? Huck has had three episodes where he has stopped breathing, passed out and had a crazy high heart rate.  After the last episode our wonderful cardiologist in Knoxville, Dr. Liske, consulted with a former colleague at Vanderbilt and decided we needed to see about Huck having an ablation surgery.  It is not a normal course of action for a child so young, but Huck's risks of waiting on this surgery far outweighed the risks of the surgery.
• What is this surgery?    Basically, one of the nation's bests electrophysiologists, Dr. Frank Fish, will use a vein in Huck's leg in order to study Huck's heart through a cardiac catheterization in order to locate the trouble are and ablate it.  It will take about four hours.  If they are able to locate and ablate the accessory pathway, there is a 90-100% chance Huck will be healed.  Holy smokes.
• Where are you and how long will you be there?  We are in Nashville at Vanderbilt's Monroe Carrell, Jr. Children's hospital.  If all goes well we will be here until Tuesday, then will spend one more night in the Nashville area to make sure all is well before we head home.

If you pray, we are asking everyone we know to pray for our boy.  He is so great. And we know that, as scary as this is, it is the right move for him.  Please pray for his little body and little heart as he is put to sleep and his heart is tested in crazy ways.  Please pray for Dr. Fish and his staff...for wisdom and discernment for them.  Please pray that the pathway is there, that it is easy to find, and that Dr. Fish is able to ablate it without damaging Huck's heart.  

Thank you for loving our boy.  Campbell, Grahambo, Daniel and I can't believe how deeply loved we are.  

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Ephesians 3:20-21