Leo has had a somewhat eventful spring and summer. Beginning this past March, Leo had some concerning changes on his echocardiogram. Without a cause such as a virus,...

  Leo has had a big week of appointments! He had his check up in Denver and got a lot accomplished! First and foremost, he had a great...

Once Leo got his heart transplant, the heart itself did very well and acted like a typical transplanted heart. Since it had been sitting on ice on the...

The days following Leo's mechanical pleurodesis were terrifying and seemed hopeless at times. The lack of fluid leaking meant his body and lungs held onto it, as you...

Being put on a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) is a major surgery, especially for an incredibly sick baby. Recovery was intense the first few days, but Leo's vital...

Walking into Leo's room the next morning was strange. My little baby boy, who I was reading his favorite book to just 24 hours earlier, was now completely...

The day after finding out that Leo needed a heart transplant was long. Long because I knew my child's heart was barely functioning on its own. It was...

Before beginning to tell the story of Leo going from ECMO to VAD, let's rewind 5 days to March 28th. We had been discharged after his second admission...

The wait between Leo's respiratory distress event and his second surgery was one of the longest weeks of my life (little did I know what lay ahead). Our...

Many are unaware of Leo's long and complicated history in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) that began when he was just two weeks old. Prenatal echocardiograms were...