When we left off, Wes’s cardiac catheterization last October was unable to resolve the issue that prompted it and so the next step was surgery. Wes is now scheduled for open heart surgery on Thursday, May 20 to replace the pulmonary conduit they installed 6 years ago. We’ll be heading out to Boston on Monday, May 17 for his pre-op appointments the morning of Tuesday, May 18. The estimated recovery time in the hospital is 7 – 10 days, putting us back home sometime Memorial Day weekend.

We are pleased that the weather should be nice in May, and are very happy that he should be healed up in time for Schroon Lake summer swimming and two weeks in LBI in July. Neither of us wanted to draw the short straw to be the one to tell Wes he has to stay out of the water…

We found a small apartment to rent for a couple weeks in the Brookline neighborhood, just a 15 minute walk from the hospital (both of us will be at the hospital during the day but only one can stay each night). Already brainstorming activities to take along. Keeping a 7-year-old occupied will be different than a 1-year-old, although I bet he would still let us push him around in a stroller all day…

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We have been happily distracted the past couple months by moving two blocks away from our old house and settling in to our new (really great!) house which happens to be Andrew’s childhood home. Wes has decorated his room with Avengers posters and spends a minimum of 2 hours each day thinking about who his new favorite Avenger is (it changes many times every day). He has also taken advantage of the adjacent elementary school parking lot to master his two-wheeler and is SO proud of himself. Now, though, this trip has snuck up on us and here we are. Stay tuned for updates later this month!

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