Friday, May 23, 2008

The Cardiologist Findings

On Wednesday we took Kaitrynn to the Cardiologist. We love her heart Dr. Dr. Petco at Primary Children's. He is always happy to see her and happy to give us great news. She had an Echo exam once again. This is her 3rd one in her short little life. We put her on the table and the tech started to do his magic. She started to cry, she didn't want anyone messing with her. I told her that there would be no "pokes". I was able to calm her down and he was able to get the photos he needed. Her heart looks great. There is a # between 20 -60. The closer it is to 60 she would need something done. This echo showed her # to be 26. That is awesome. The Dr. was very pleased. He said he loves to see visits like this. This is pretty close to normal. As close to normal as it can be with a heart defect. We are glad that things are going well in this area. She has been on Soy formula a week today. She seems to be tolerating it really well. She gets excited for the bottle now and moves her arms and legs for it. She had two feeding of baby food yesterday. She may just be feeling really good now and is ready to eat. Thank goodness for modern technology. I just love my peanut so much. She has been through so ..... much and has been a real trooper through it all.

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Christina said...
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Christina said...

Hi, I found your blog and wanted to post a note about congenital heart defects.

My son Jacob is 13 months old now and was born with a heart defect: Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA). We did not know before he was born and he had to be emergency transfered to PCMC. He had open heart surgery at Primary Children's when he was 5 days old.

I am part of a support group called Intermountain Healing Hearts. I do not know if you have seen our posters in cardiology when you have been there for appointments. We have over 90 families with children who have various CHD and even some CHD adults in the group!

The group website is: www.IntermountainHealingHearts.org
We also have a Yahoo group for email exchange.

Please let me know if we can be of help to your family in anyway.

Christina Davis
christina@intermountainhealinghearts.org
www.jacobsheart.blogspot.com