Oscar had both clinics yesterday - a quick checkup at Oral Health at Middlemore where they adjusted his mouth plate and applied some second skin to his checks and then a piece of taping across his lips (or lack there of) which he has to wear fulltime to help shape his lip area in preperation for his lip surgery.
Then we had heart clinic at Starship. This time he had to have all the tests done, so x-ray, ECG and echo scan. It was a long afternoon and a long wait at the end of all the tests to see the doctors. They were really happy with his progress and were impressed with his weight gain (about 20 grams per day) as it is hard for heart babies to put on weight. They have a meeting on Monday where they discuss all the cases and expect that they will decide to operate on Oscar in about 4 weeks time.
Although there will never be a 'good' time to hand over our precious baby, I am glad that the surgery will take place sooner rather than later (we had thought it could be 2 or 3 months before the op).
We will probably get about a weeks notice for the surgery, so we'll let you know when we hear.
Special thanks to our food rosta mates - had Robyn's fabulous cannelloni when we got home from our very long day yesterday! Bloody marvellous.
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