Helen is doing ok, she had chemo last week, and had some effects of that during the weekend, but she is ok now.
Carl has been doing very well, his colostomy bag started working well last Thursday, and on Friday they started feeding him food (via a tube), and today he is getting food at a rate of 6 ml/hour :)
But... They have had concerns about the low levels of oxygen in his blood, so they have been giving him extra oxygen. And yesterday he had an ultrasound scan of his heart, and then they discovered that he has a birth defect on his heart called "tetralogy of fallot" which causes the blood with oxygen to mix with the blood with low oxygen. This is one of the more common heart problems for new born babies.
So tomorrow, wednesday 29 July he will be transported to Johannesburg where he will have heart surgery to correct this problem. This is a procedure with a high success rate, but of course he is very small and he is already recovering from his previous surgery.
Helen will travel with him in the ambulance, and i will catch a flight in the morning, and the surgeon will see him in the afternoon.
But we are convinced he will go through this without problem. He will be fine :)
More pictures:
http://www.pbase.com/tessajoughin/waiting_for_casper
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=82357430938
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=286365&id=790075440
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