Sunday, August 14, 2011

Where to begin?

Well I guess maybe at the beginning...while I was pregnant it was discovered that the baby had only a two vessel cord.  After seeing the specialist, we learned that the results of this could be something or nothing.  However, Steven was growing as he should and everything checked out on the ultrasounds.  But now I am starting to think that Steven has the something.  The day after he was born he had an ultrasound done that showed a little reflux on his kidneys, because of the that we had a one week follow up appointment with his pediatrician.  At that appointment the pediatrician asked me if "they" had told me he had a heart murmur.  To this day I cannot remember if she said "bad or big" but I think she could have said both!  Needless to say, we have now been to the cardiologist every week.  Steven has been diagnosed  with VSD, ventricular septal defect, which is a hole between his lower two chambers.  It is likely that he will have surgery to have it closed.  Not only that, we are making sure that everything else is ok.  That means that we have some other appointments in addition to the cardiologist coming up.  In fact, this week is Tuesday cardiologist, Wednesday urologist, and Thursday pediatrician for 2 month shots.  Oh and Miller starts kindergarten tomorrow.  It is going to be a busy week for us, we are just praying that it goes as smooth as possible. 

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