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Bryson has been a trooper and gained weight from his birth weight of 4lbs 2 oz, but he has had two surgeries already that may or may not have brought us to this point

The first surgery was a colostomy on his second day of life and the second was about a month ago to create an anal opening (later to be connected to the colon, now serving the colostomy bag)

The doctors started him on some heart medication in anticipation of an open heart surgery that was known from birth ....

Bryson only has two chambers and the surgery was to correct that

Today, he was brought in for a lung scan of some kind and they found or realized (I don't know which) that he has pulmonary hyper tension (I have no idea what that is ... just passin on information) and that he has about three times more blood in his lungs than an average person (I'm using my DIL's language) and they have him on a ventilator

He was originally supposed to have his heart surgery March 26, but Monday they upped it to March 16

I don't know WHAT they're thinking now

My Son and DIL are 21, first baby, scared and I'm going to pull all markers in on this one

PLEASE pray for Bryson ... AND some of my family members that are talking trash about ... if Bryson dies, God doesn't exist .. and etcetera

We're in the beginning stages of being a mess

Here's Courtney's text .. as sent;

Well not good news we will be staying at the hospital i dont know for how long but bryson's results are not good his lungs are damaged an he has 3x the amount of blood in his lungs then the average person he got very sick on oxygen because it exspanded his lungs an allowed more blood flow in there so he is on a venilator an he will be for some time he has two very large holes in his heart an has to have his open heart done within two weeks or his chances of life are low his heart is getting weaker as each day passes even with the meds he is on he has over the normal amount of pressure in his lungs by alot please just send a prayer to bryson thats all we ask nothing else

This is a copy and paste as of this afternoon .. Friday ..
I Just HAD to break it up as best I could because Courtney (maybe ALL of 'em .. ?) knows NOTHING about punctuation

I havent got to update on here, yet too much was going on.

first i want to say thank you so much to all who are helping us raise money. god bless! you dont know how much it means to us an especially bryson.

Today was a rough day we had got admitted after bryson's cath as alot of you know. He wasn't looking the best.

We had been told bryson has 3times the amount of blood in his lungs as an average person should and he has a scary level of pressure in his lungs.

Bryson had another lung scan done and he does not have the pulmonary hypertension anymore thank god for that but he is still looking at risk for his open heart.

His lungs are damaged already which isn't good but hopefully doesn't affect him. Bryson has been sedated since early this afternoon he is on a breathing tube in the intensive care unit.

They wanted to take bryson for his open heart today but his lungs are wet and they can't do it while his lungs are wet because of health problems that can occur. They are still sticking with march 16 th for his open heart becuase his lungs need a break before they do the surgery.

Today when they did his cath they put him on oxygen and it opened up his lungs an since his holes in his heart are bigger then they had thought it had let more blood in so bryson did have blood coming up out of his mouth but they resolved that issue.

Bryson still has a narrow thick arterie it's the pulmonary arterie the main one that lets the blood flow throughtout the lungs and back to the heart it will need fixed during open heart an hoping it will help with the extra blood flow in his lungs an the extra pressure.

He is going to be put on meds for the pressure to reduce it before surgery. They had said we can take bryson home just for a few days to give him a break from being stressed up here an then we will be admitted back in here an then his open heart will be done.

Everything that's wrong with his heart can be fixed but it also could still fail or need a second surgery depending on how bryson's body responds.

But that is all we know for sure i will keep everyone updated as we go

thank you all again an god bless you an keep on praying for bryson please.

we have just started the hard part an it is going to be a tough one his issues are more serious then the doctors even thought so its a shock to us as well i have faith god will help him pull through this an heal him an make him as good as new.