Today, we were told that Max would be operated on at 10:15am on Thursday, June 17. This means that we have to be at the hospital by around 9:15ish in order to meet with the surgeon and give our consent. The procedure is simple sounding. They perform an incision in his back/side area near the heart, go in with some forceps and a titanium clip and clip the duct shut. That’s it, essentially. One of the doctors said that, at this age, children grow so quickly that their skin repairs super fast. The surgery is the most performed one in the NICU, so that’s another odd blessing in disguise. They do so many, that we can assume they’re ready for any and all issues that could arise during the surgery. And again, the surgery itself is to help a natural process along that his premature body is having issues dealing with. It’s not fixing something that’s gone wrong. This, in and of itself makes the surgery less of a “Big Deal” and more just something that needs to get done. We both are looking forward to the progress he makes afterwards.
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