Things we have to be thankful for:
*family and friends
*hospitals and doctors
*funding for congential heart defect research
*hope and faith...100% responsible for keeping us from losing our minds
Fun facts about why:
*Open heart surgery has been around for only 66 years. That is during Will's grandparents' lifetimes.
*Untreated Tetralogy of Fallot has a survival rate of approximately 75% after the first year of life, 60% by four years, 30% by ten years, and 5% by forty years.
*Now over 85% of those with TOF survive to adulthood with corrective surgery. Very good but fairly new odds in Will's favor.
We are giving thanks that he was born in 2009 and not 1943. One year before the surgery that opened the door for heart surgeries as we know them now. We still haven't had a chance to see that movie, Something the Lord Made, about it. I'm putting that on the list of things to do over the holidays.
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That is a GREAT movie...but be prepared for tears...I think we watched it too soon =)
We have much to be thankful for =) Glad you guys are doing well!
I love your blog. And you!
SOOOO much to be thankful for! You said it all!
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