Erin's Heart

Erin had her cardiology visit this morning at Texas Children’s Hospital. Her appointment started at 7:30 am, which meant we left here at 6:30. She had her first experience with a sedated echo. I was a bit worried about the sedation process, always the scary part to put them under. They said that she would be groggy and ornery for 4-6 hours afterwards. There are always kids screaming in the clinic because when they wake up they are very disoriented. But Erin did excellent. She woke up with a smile on her face and acted like she was slap-happy drunk. It was pretty funny. She was very vocal and had no balance for about an hour. Then she just sat back in a daze like she was high as a kite, carefree of the world.

We met with Dr Kolvchin (Erins pedi card whos very cool), and he said her echo results looked excellent.

Heres the report:

There is little scaring on the arch repair
The two holes in her heart they manually closed did not reopen, nor did the pda closure. Her valves are still defective (always will be) but their performance are at an acceptable standard and growing with the other parts of her heart.

It was good to hear that everything was functioning well. Considering her behavior I had no reason to suspect any problems, but then again the worst always seems to hit when your guard is down. But we were blessed this time and now she is peacefully resting off the “good stuff”.

Tonight I am taking two of my Laurels to volunteer at the peanut butter cannery from 9:30pm to 2am. Then they want to go to IHOP afterwards. Hmmm, IHOP at 3 am in Houston , if you don’t hear from me again, we probably got shot :) These two women are nuts, I am sure I’ll have a good story to tell tomorrow.