The decision is made

Dr. Day, the cardiologist called me at work the other night so we could discuss the possibilities of how to help Ashton. He is such a nice guy and spends so much time helping us understand things. Sometimes we wonder if he ever sees his family because he is always helping his patients. So we made a decision on what to do. We will do a catheter which will be scheduled in June sometime. In the cath. there are three things they want to try to achieve. First off he will try to open up the shunt that has closed off. I have been worried that the clot may go up instead of down, but the dr. said he would not do anything if it looked to risky to try to remove. The second thing is to try to clean up the area in the left artery going to his lungs that had a stent but then that got cut apart and they put in a homographt. He just wants to make sure there is nothing starting to block off that artery. Third, he will coil some colaterals, which are small veins but have gotten bigger because more blood has gone to them looking for oxygen. A coil in them will not let as much blood flow through, or he may stop all blood flow if it looks like it is too big. If he is not able to open up the shunt then we would have to have a surgery done, which I assume would be at another time, to put in a new shunt. They are using a new type of shunt and the surgery to put it in is easier than in the past. I know this is a lot of information and it may be a lot of foreign information to some of you, but after talking to Dr. Day I feel good about the decisions we have made. We will keep praying and ask for your prayers also. We decided to have it in June so we will be out of school and we can get Ambrea through graduation.