Happy 10th Birthday to Jeremy's heart...

Today, on August 23, Jeremy's 3 separate heart defects were successfully repaired giving him a whole new life. Jeremy underwent major open heart surgery at 7am and was out by 12pm, this all taking place 2 weeks after he turned a year old, weighing 14 pounds. Jeremy spent 4 days in the PICU, 2 days on the floor for a grand total of 6 days in the hospital, one of his shortest hospital stays. Jeremy's heart was demanding so much of the food he was taking in that even the additional calories were not helping. Jeremy was in congestive heart failure and failure to thrive at one year of age. Jeremy had no energy to develop, could barely hold his head up and was just starting to roll. That all changed after Dr. Richard Ranne repaired his heart, he was able to keep the calories and started to thrive. Jeremy started to progress and took off from there. When Jeremy turned 2 years old he was a champion crawler and cruiser.