The old heart

Today we were able to go up to Pathology where they are keeping Parkers old heart. It was kind of weird but kind of cool. It is about 3 times as big as it should be, it was as big as Jim's fist, and usually your heart is as big as your own fist. So that shows actually how big it really was. The walls of his heart were about 1.3cm thick they are supposed to be 3mm. It is no wonder that his heart wasn't working the way it should. The doctor told us that they will keep it indefinitely, so if he wants to go and see it when hes 25 years old then he can go to them and see it. They keep it and use it for teaching new residents or anyone that is curious and wants to learn more. He showed us all the valves, the VSD, where the Berlin heart went in, and a bunch of other things about it. It was once in a life time chance to see something like that and I'm glad that we were able to go and do it.

Parker got up to the floor yesterday and so we were able to take him for a walk today. We brought him with us when we went to see the Pathologist doctor. We had to put on a gown, some safety glasses and some gloves. When he saw us, he started going ballistic, we were trying to listen to the doctor and Parker was making a lot of noise, but some of the nurses came with us to see it and so they took turns being with him in the hallway. One thing about having a heart that works the way that it should work is that... man can they ever scream a lot louder!!!