I just got an other e-mail from Kate this afternoon with a little more detail than before. I found out the reason Derrick was admitted was that his electrolyes were low and it would be much quicker for him to recover in hospital than at home. He has not been responding well to the medication (it is drying him up too much) and it is effecting his kidneys. This medication would have held him off until surgery. The cardiologist said he should stay in until his surgery, which they just found out will be the whole operation of fixing his heart instead of a smaller one to hold him off for awhile. They will be going this week to CHEO (which I noted in my last post) for his surgery that will probably happen next week. They will be there for a week or so until he recovers and will be able to go home. He is currently getting food from a feed tube because he exerts too much energy trying to nurse or bottle feed making it too hard on his little heart. Katie does get the odd chance to nurse him though and is right by his side constantly.
Please pray also for a desired return of big Derrick..SOON! (a reminder from Kate) :)
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