Cardiac Cath Lab

January 4th, 2007. Aiden is going in for his first "real" procedure. After midnight, he isn't allowed to eat anything. This is a child who wakes up at 6 am every morning and expects the bottle to be ready 15 seconds later. How on earth was he supposed to understand that Mommy could not feed him when he demanded to be fed?
We went to the hospital, and into the surgical waiting area. Aiden and I were taken into a little pre-op room. Of course, everything is running behind schedule. Aiden's cath was to be at 9 am. It was nearly 1pm before Dr. Kimberling's assistant came to retrieve us and take us to the 3rd floor. The cath is supposed to last 1.5 hours and I am to wait in this little room down the hall.
45 minutes later, Dr. Kimberling comes in and my heart sinks to the pit of my stomach. He's WAY to early to be finished already!! He says that the cath is done and Aiden is on his way up to the PICU on the 5th floor. Everything went well, he would give the results to Dr. Lundt (the cardiologist) and Dr. Ranne (the surgeon). I can go wait in the PICU waiting room until called.
When I finally get to go back to Aiden's room, 3 nurses are in there trying to comfort him. I take him in my arms, sit in the rocking chair by his bed, and give him a bottle of Pedialyte.
The following week, all the doctors have a conference in which Aiden is discussed. Aiden had an appointment with Dr Lundt the next day. She says that Dr. Ranne had passed on doing Aiden's reparative surgery and that she would set the surgery up with Dr. Pastuszko at the OU Children's Hospital.
A week later, Dr Lundt calls and give me the number to Dr. Pastuszko's office and says to speak to Shelly to set up the date for Aiden's surgery. I call and set the date for February 4th - two weeks away.
On February 2, Shelly calls and asked if I would be willing to reschedule Aiden's surgery for the 7th. Another baby was born just the day before and needed to see the surgeon more than Aiden did. I agree. After all, I had already gotten to know my son and I thought that another mom needed the opportunity to know her child as well.
February 6th, rolls around and yet another call from Shelly. This time she wanted to reschedule Aiden's surgery for February 15th. I agreed once again.