The Book's Intended Audience

The process of birth always scared me.  So many things could go wrong that it seemed like a miracle that it could ever happen without anything going wrong.  We experienced that miracle with the birth of our first child in 1994.  With our second child, however, my fears became reality - to an extent that I never imagined. 

The Book follows the story of the journey our family took down the road of pediatric cardiology – a road that was simultaneously the most frightening and rewarding road any of us had traveled up to that point.  The experience provided a hard lesson in properly managing our expectations  in order  to physically, emotionally, and mentally survive the trip. 

Our experience has been published in an attempt to provide another glimmer of hope to those that come after us.  The details  in  this book  are  those  that were  actually generated during our experience.  They are documented here for the benefit of those that are about to experience what we did but are not getting satisfaction in answers to questions they ask about what to expect.