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.





Monday, October 6, 2008

1st Time to Sit Up

Last night Jesse got up into the sitting position all by himself while crawling around in the kitchen. It was very exciting!!!

We are getting ready to leave to go to Denver for the heart cath tomorrow. We have to be at the hospital at 6:00am, but I think the actual procedure is at 8:00am. They will also be doing a bronchoscopy.

Cardiac catheterization (heart cath) is the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart.
See http://www.pulmonary-hypertension-treatments.com/heart_catheterization.html for a description of the procedure.

Bronchoscopy is a test to view the airways and diagnose lung disease. A bronchoscope is a device used to see the inside of the lungs.

We will let you know as soon as we know any results.

Kristan
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  1. AnonymousOctober 6, 2008 at 3:40 PM

    What fun. Oh the things he can do!! Thank you so much for sharing with all of us. Jesse and his family will be in my prayers during this scary time. Call if you need to. ♥♥Amee

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