Tate's 1st surgery

In September 2005, Tate had surgery to repair his defect. He was 5 1/2 months old. The doctors originally told me that he would at least be a year old before they would do the repair so needless to say when they gave me 3 weeks notice about his surgery I was a basketcase. But they wanted to get it done before RSV season and since he seemed to be doing really well they wanted to get it over with. He was in the hospital for 6 days and did remarkably well. He was such a trooper. We had lots of family and friends visit which was a huge blessing. He has continued to do well and had grown up to be such an amazing child.