On Monday February 18th, my mentor, Wendy came to the hospital to sit and wait with me while final ECMO removal was attepmted. She and her daughter Hannah had brought a Boyd's bear, a book for Aiden "God Made You Little One" and a card with Hannah's favorite scripture. The card said that Aiden was in the Greatest Surgeon's care and that the person giving the card was talking to him on a daily basis to heal Aiden.
When the surgical team came to Aiden's room, I was told to go wait in the waiting room. Wendy and I sat there for what seemed forever!! I kept going back and forth between the waiting room and the PICU nurses' station. I was scared and I didn't want to not know what was happening in that room.
About an hour and a half later, I walked into the PICU area and Dr. Pastuszko walked out of Aiden's room. He said that he had turned down the ECMO and things went really well. Aiden had maintained his heart rate and pressures. Then he turned the machine down a little more and the same results. So, the ECMO was turned completely off. Aiden had maintained all his stats for more than 30 minutes without assistance.
I went back into the waiting room to tell Wendy the news. Together we walked into Aiden's room and immediately the presence of the Greatest Surgeon was in the room. Aiden's vitals were PERFECT!
Now for what I wasn't told. I wasn't told that Aiden was only given a 3% chance to even come off the ECMO or to survive. I wasn't told that while Dr. Pastuszko was lowering the ECMO machine, Dr. Ward was on the phone with the hospital in St. Louis putting Aiden on the heart transplant list.
I want to thank EVERYONE for their prayers. Someone has a direct connection to HIM.
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