Jayden is doing good. He is off all of his IV sedation medicine. Jayden is on 50% of blended oxygen and they are trying to get him off of it the next two days and on to room air and he is doing very good on 50% oxygen. He is still being pacing because Dr.Gus didnt like where his heart rate was sitting so he hook up the pacer. Tomorrow or the next day they're going to add more calories to Jaydens formula so he can get some more calories. We are so please as how Jayden is doing.
Keep Jayden in ur prayers and thanks for all of the prayers.
Eric, Jessica, Katilynn, and Kaleb
A Special Baby Boy journey with HLHS
Team Jayden Chase
Jayden Chase Taylor
Jayden Chase Taylor was born on Jan 21,2010 and they thought he had a heart murmur so they had him sent to WVU childrens hospital in Morgantown where they found out he had HLHS. HLHS is hypoplastic left heart syndrome is a rare congential heart defect in which the left side is small or underdeveloped. An infant borning with HLHS will not live without the 3 parts of open heart surgery. The syndrome is one of the top three abnormaities to cause problems in newborns. HLHS occurs slightly more often in boys then girls. Jayden was admitted to the NICU ontill the schedules his series of open heart surgery. Jayden was a wek old when Dr. Gus done his first open heart surgery and it was called the Norwood procedure. In this prodcedure the right venticle is used to pump blood into the circulation. The right ventricle is no longer directly pumping blood to the lungs, a shunt is made directly from the right ventricle to the pulmonary circulation. The narrow aorta is enlarged using patch to improve blood flow to the body. Jayden is a very fragile baby and he has a feeding tube because he has a left paralysis vocal cord and it burns all of heart babys calories to suck a bottle. Jayden had is second series of open heart surgery when he was 2 1/2 months. It called the Bi-Directional Glenn prodecure or Hemi-Fontan. In this operation the superior vena cava is ligated from the heart and connected to the pulmonary circulation. During this time may improve quaility of life as the heart dosen't have to work as hard. The third series of open heart surgery will be around 18 months to 3 years and this one is called the Fontan procedure which completes the repair of HLHS. The surgery goal is to seperate the red and blue blood, have the blue blood enter the lungs directly, have the heart as the pump of oxygen rich blood. The three stage Norwood procedure only increase the life of the heart as HLHS cannot be cured. Jayden may need a heart transplant at some point in his lifetime. After his second surgery Jayden is not a fragile baby. Jayden is a very special baby and he is very strong. He is just amazing for what he has been though. Thanks for all the prayers Mommy, Daddy, Katilynn, and Kaleb Love you Jayden
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