"It has to get worse before it gets better"

Henry sailed through his Glenn procedure with relative ease.  Dr. Permut said everything looks great.  I know they did a great job but it is so hard to see your child who was perfectly happy and healthy get all banged up.  He looks so much better than after the first surgery but still bad.  He wasn't marshmallow white.. actually his color was great and his incision looked good.  But he has a breathing tube, chest tubes, 3 IVs, sensors etc...
the ICU team is taking care if him tonight and will work on getting him off the breathing tube and probably feed him some pedialyte or milk in the wee hours.  Recovery is fast from this surgery they say... I sure hope so.