Heart Appointment

We had our cardiology check up appointment this morning. We had to say good bye to our wonderful cardiologist Dr. Sachdeva!:( She has been so sweet to us and really has taken care of us.

They did an echocardiogram on Carsten and apparently his Mitral Valve is leaking worse than the last time. Its not a huge concern however, as she explained that many children can go on forever with mildly leaking valves. She is going to put him on a medicine to lower his blood pressure and wants us to periodically check his blood pressure. They will continue to watch the valve as he grows and hopefully it will not get any worse. She said worse case scenario would be that they eventually go back in and patch it up.

Please continue to pray for his little heart that it would completely heal up on its own and not need any more surgeries. We want him to live a full happy, healthy, joyful life!

Carsten is now eating three stage one baby foods a day!! YEAH!! I had to call the nutritionist this morning because I think he wants to eat more and I didn't know how much liquid to tube him. I hope he can learn to drink soon and we can work towards getting that tube out of there!!

Please pray for two of my friends. Janna, her son Leighton is in the hospital now in the same situation as Carsten last year. He is on a ventilator and they are trying to get him to where he can have his heart surgery too. Pray for her endurance, she also has a little girl, I can't imagine trying to juggle both!

Also my other friend Jana will be coming to Children's in a couple of weeks for her daughter to have heart surgery. This will be her second of three operations to repair her heart. She is a family friend that goes way back, our moms were best friends. Ironic that we both had children with heart problems. Please pray for a successful surgery and that Jana and her husband would stay in "perfect peace".

Sometimes I forget now that we are home that other people are still there going through that hardest part.

Blessings today from the Bridges House