And so the birthday celebration began this afternoon with a visit from Paul who came bearing bday greetings from Tiffany & Co! They are always so sweet to remember Rudy – their “Tiffany Soldier”! Max and Rolf have an early call in the am for football and the rest of us will head over to the ranch to finish up set up for the Bayou! ‘Such a BIG day!!! Happy Birthday Eve Rudy…we sure are thrilled to celebrate you.

There aren’t too many kids I know that fall asleep during an echo – 🙂

Dr. Dan brought Rudy some reading material this morning during his rounds. 🙂 Rudy had a restless and uncomfortable night’s sleep but he is happy to be sitting up this morning and very eager to get going. Dr. Dan ordered an echo and said once it is reviewed, we are cleared to go, go, go!

We’ll post an explanation of the cath results when we get home! 🙂 Thank you for praying everyone…we are encouraged and we praise God for His continued work in the masterpiece that is Rudy!

Not sure if it’s due to improved lung function or just age and experience, but Rudy’s Udderball skills have blossomed!

Waiting in recovery for our room assignment. Short on things to do.

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Just had a long consult with docs. So grateful for such incredibly gifted people who care so much about Rudy.

More details later. We’re here for the night and probably won’t get to post much in depth. Just loving being here with this incredible kid. Thanks for praying.

We ate breakfast looking at the little buzzer-thingy. We went outside and kept a close eye on the buzzer-thingy. Dr. Rick paid us a visit which made it not as hard to keep staring at the buzzer-thingy.

At 11:15 we got a call from the cath lab and Dr Dan and Dr Harake reported that all the numbers are improved. They’ll give a full update later–not that status has changed remarkably, but things are headed in the right direction. They have found some collaterals they want to coil so they’ll be doing that for the next hour.

They were glad to call us with a more upbeat report and it feels surreal to get something other than bad news from a cath lab.

Getting some lunch so we can be ready to go see Rudy.

Well, at least one of us woke up with a smile at 0 400 hours! We got a call last night from UCLA to report to admit at 5:45am so it looks like Rudy will be first on today’s list … At least we won’t hit morning rush hour in LA ;).