Heart Cath, check : Recovered and Home, check : Heart Surgery Scheduled, well... not exactly.

Home again! Cath went well. No hiccups and they got all the information they needed. By 6 pm Jacob was washed up, in fresh clothes, being fed, and playing with his favorite toys in the comfort of his own home. Tired, yes. A little cranky, sure. But really good (amazing Jacob). Big sigh of relief.

You would think all that good information from the cath would lead to a clear answer on next steps ....um, that was the plan after all. But no. Heavens no. Jacob continues his pattern of very non-committal test results.  This pattern of grey area test results started before birth so why should we expect it to change now? The good news is all the results show Jacob's heart and associated appurtenances (like lungs) are working pretty darn well all told (again-amazing Jacob!).

The difficult (if we can call it that) part is that none of the things they looked at are over the definitely-needs-surgery threshold.... but they are all - in varying degrees - close to the threshold ... so cumulatively they probably add up to Jacob needing surgery like we thought. Final decision won't be made until the whole cardiologist team puts their heads together Friday.

My translation:  If we lived in a third world country... Idaho, for example... Jacob would live a pretty good life without heart surgery.  As it turns out we live *here* with some of the best pediatric cardiac surgeons in the world at our fingertips who can present a potentially much healthier and better quality of life with the heart surgery.  But even they feel the need to check themselves (with their peers) and make sure that statement is really true vs. them wanting to do it just because they can. 

Either way, we are all breathing easier. Cath is over. Jacob's heart is doing ok, nothing to panic about. Weather is beautiful and we don't need to be over protective about germs impacting heart procedures (at least for now) so we can get out of the house! Thank goodness, because Jacob has been just dying to go to Captain Larry's.