My internet connection (my laptop attached to my phone) is on the fritz, so I can't post pictures for today. We spent the morning snorkeling in a beautiful bay and taking pictures of tropical fish. Visibility was good and the fish were varied. We then spent a couple of hours exploring the area before heading back to the docks for our night manta ray snorkel.
The success rate for manta viewing is around 90%, but we somehow managed to pick a manta-less day. We spent over an hour in the water, waiting for them to arrive. Since this is so important to me (lifelong dream), we'll be using our rain check and trying again tomorrow. I hope to have better news tomorrow night.
About Me
- JR
- D's husband. Andrew's dad. Son, friend, cousin, nephew, grandson....the list goes on.
About This Blog
This blog was originally created to disseminate information about Andrew, our son who was born on June 15, 2007. Andrew was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) that allowed abdominal organs (stomach, intestines, etc) to migrate into his chest cavity during development. This prohibited normal lung growth, making it difficult for him to live without significant life support, including a ventilator, a lung bypass machine called ECMO, and a long list of medications.
Andrew spent the next five months at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, undergoing multiple operations for the hernia repair, intestinal rearrangement, stomach tube insertion, etc. Multiple attempts to help him breathe on his own without a ventilator were unsuccessful due to a number of anatomical and developmental difficulties. Andrew's failure to progress and an abundance of overwhelmingly unfavorable test results led us to remove him from life support and let nature take its course on November 19, 2007.
We greatly appreciate the time we were able to spend with Andrew, and this blog continues as a source for information, a tribute to his memory, and a continuation of our lives without him present. From the emotional to the mundane, our lives have been forever changed by his presence; those lives are now chronicled here.
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