"What we share together will live much longer than we do..."

Happy Thanksgiving!  We spent the day and ate our turkey at the hospital. Bentley is doing great and recovering quick. His heart still needs a little longer on the dopamine so we are still in the ICU. We will do another echo in the morning to see how it’s doing. But he’s doing great! We have so much to be grateful for today and everyday. We are missing Hadley but we are grateful that she too can be around family enjoying the Holiday with her cousins. Thanks for all the prayers and love. We are hoping to be home this weekend but don’t know for sure. We are just taking it day by day♥️ Happy Thanksgiving ♥️The Richards Family

Before I was able to update the blog about Bentley’s surgery it got moved up! Surgery was scheduled for November 28. Then on Wednesday of last week the surgeons office called and said they would need to move his surgery later date. However that had a last minute opening on Friday and asked if that would be enough time. We have already been waiting for a couple months so we said we could do Friday!  So here I am writing this on my phone from the hospital. 🙂 Let me back up a little bit. The week of November 3 Bentley had a series of tests and procedures to see if he would be a candidate for the double switch surgery. My awesome mother in law came out and took care of Hadley while we were in and out of the hospital that week.  He ended up not being a candidate yet, the pressure in his artery still needed to be a little higher before they would consider him a candidate,  so we proceeded with our previous plan of just tightening his PA Band.  When we found out our surgery was moved

After two long months, the time has finally arrived for Bentley's Testing! Tomorrow is Pre-op. Tuesday-Wednesday is his cardiac cath procedure and on Thursday is his CT scan.  We are hoping by the end of this week we have some answers, and have and a surgery date set. We are also so glad that Alex's mom can be here this week to take care of Hadley while we are in and out of the hospital. 🧡 We are grateful for all of the prayers in Bentleys behalf, and are grateful for any more as he goes through his testing this week. Anyway its short today, but I will post an update once we know more. Lots of Love Lezlie and Alex Also we did celebrate Halloween! Even though we have been keeping inside away from germs we still carved pumpkins and put on costumes. We even went up and down our street so the kids got some candy:)  We had an ewok and a spooky ghost!!