Most Surreal Countdown Ever.

Not much emotional gobblygook this evening; just some details. This Thursday we head to CHOP with our Bean for our consultation with Dr. Spray, the pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon that will be performing Myla's surgery. Following the consultation, Myla will have her pre-admission testing. This will be comprised of a chest X-ray, echocardiogram, and blood work. This is all old news for Myla as she has had multiple X-rays, echocardiograms, and a large quantity of blood taken. Two weeks from Thursday (Thursday December 22) Myla will have her surgery. We wanted to try to avoid being in the hospital for the holidays, but that is now unavoidable. Myla needs the surgery and this was the first date they had. I assume that a Children's hospital will have some festivities for the holidays, but this is in no way how planned on celebrating our daughter's first holiday season. We aren't really sure of any more details at this point. We have questions for the surgeon about the surgery, the recovery, how long we need to quarantine Myla before and after the surgery, and probably a hundred more questions will come up on our drive home from the consultation.

So today we are 16 days away and counting....16 days to love our little lady up, roll around on the ground with her, spin her in circles, and respect that fine line between squeezing her so hard because we love her so much and squeezing so hard doing further damage. We love you Myla June, you amazingly strong girl.