Our Blessing Named Jesse

Jesse Quintin was born September 26, 2007, the much-loved fifth son of Kristan and Chad. He was diagnosed shortly after birth with AV Canal Heart Defect and Down Syndrome. Thursday, January 10th, Jesse had surgery to repair his heart defect. Friday morning he suddenly went into cardiac arrest. After 45 min. of CPR he was attached to life support. By God's healing hand his heart started to beat again and he came off life support on January 13. We created this blog to keep everyone updated.





Saturday, December 13, 2008

December 11th Appointments

Thursday Jesse had 2 apointments at Children's Hospital. The first was with his physical therapist. We were very excited with how much progress he has made since his last appointment. He now gets to sitting position in an instant, army crawls everywhere, pulls to stand on everything, and is starting to "cruise" (has taken 1-2 steps while holding on to the coffee table.) Our next things to work on are climbing stairs, crawling on hands and knees, and assisted walking.

In the afternoon we saw his cardiologist. He was very unhappy and screaming after the EKG, and then went for an echo. I could tell from watching the screen that the pulmonary hypertension numbers were high. Thankfully, he calmed down after about a 1/2 hour break, and the numbers came way down. The doctor thought everything looked great and we probably won't have to go back for 3 months. And then we may be looking at starting to wean off oxygen. YEAH!!!

Thanks for your continued prayers for Jesse's health throughout the winter.

Kristan

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