Well, this is Jeremy and this is my first shot at the blog. I just wanted to jump on here real quick and give some updates on Jac for those that are interested in hearing how he is doing. First off I want to thank everyone for all the care and love they have shown to our family in the last few weeks. We really appreciate all of the offers for dinners, desserts, things to pass the time and all the love people have expressed to us.

If you haven't heard and this is your first time hearing about it, Jac has a VSD which is a congenital heart defect, a hole in his heart. They are one of the most common heart defects that there is and are easy to fix if you talk to a doctor. It sounds like a much bigger deal to a common man though. The hole is allowing oxygenated blood to flow back through the heart and back into the lungs where it is not able to pick up any more oxygen. This makes his heart and lungs have to work twice as hard to pump blood through his body. To fix it they have to do open heart surgery to place a patch over the hole. He also has a small membrane that has grown because of the hole. So they will be removing that also.

Well, it has been a long week for us already. We drove up here monday morning in pretty bad weather and a little bit behind schedual but on the way the surgeon called and told us that he had an emergency in the family and wasn't able to do the surgery on tuesday as planned so we didn't have to rush for the rest of the trip up.

We took Jac to do preliminary tests yesterday. He was a champ through the hole thing. He didn't cry through getting blood drawn or being walked through the whole hospital a few times. He did cry when he was getting X-rays, though. But that was because they were holding him wierd. We'll try to post pictures later.

Today was a real long day for him. He wasn't able to eat at all from 11 till his surgery. Which was supposed to be at two, but the anesthesiologist didn't show until 3:30. Jac was not happy at all. But Lacie and I did learn a few new ways to momentarily calm him down when he's on a tear. So I guess it wasn't all bad. Also in an unrelated and unimportant note PCMC has an invisible train system that runs above the waiting room on the second floor at just the right time to wake a dozing baby.

The nurse just came by and let us know that they made the first incision about a half an hour ago. So I guess the surgery is underway. Lacie is laughing at how much I've written in here so I guess it is time for me to sign off. we'll be posting updates as we get them. See ya!