My Cardio Baby

So last week we had an appointment with Trio's cardiologist to see how his heart patch and his pulmonary valve were doing. I like Dr. Holt he's really nice and personable to Trio as well as being very good at answering all the questions I may have. So he listened to Trio's heart and sent him to get an echo.

I have to say this was the best echos we've ever had. He sat still for the most part and he wasn't screaming and crying. In fact he was talking to Sue, the one who does the echo, and even flirting with her. It was awesome whereas it use to take us an hour and a half almost to do it this one took maybe 30-40 minutes. I mean we were there so long because the office had a lot of patients there (and from the way the babies in there were crying in the waiting rooms including my own at one point, you would have thought there were giving shots in there). According to the echo though the gradient in the valve got higher since our last check-up in January not enough for him to be overly concerned but enough to still keep him on the medicine and to put me on stand-by that a visit to the cath lab may be necessary in the future. Now while I don't relish the idea of going back to the hospital, at least this one is an outpatient procedure and at most we may stay in the hospital overnight.

As far as a lot of heart babies go I would like to think Trio does well. He is very active and he doesn't get over exhausted quickly. He doesn't seem to have a lot of breathing problems when he plays (thank goodness) and as for the sweat; well it's hard to tell if he sweats a lot because of the heart thing or because of genetics (seriously, his dad can be out in the sun for five minutes and is sweating buckets and that's on a normal not hot as the outer layer of hell day like the ones we've been having). He loves being active. He's certain he can swim without a float (that's always a fun story) and he climbs and runs and dances and plays. He's certainly a little boy.

I remember being sad when we found out how we had to get the surgery. My primary concern was that he wouldn't be able to do all the climbing, running, and sports that little boys do. I expressed this concerns to Dr. Holt who told me that while he may not be the star athlete he will still be able to play. And now that I see it in motion I love it. I love watching him play because I know it makes him happy. While I am sad that he still has to be on the medicine because I figured this would have been a huge fun step for us, we'll still doing good on the heart front and for that I am grateful.