The cardiologist.............

Maddie's 1st birthday included a visit to the cardiologist to check her heart. He said she looked great!! She weighed 18lbs and was 28 inches long. The Dr. said the pulses in her legs and ankles were great. She had no murmurs in her heart. They did an echo of her heart and said the repaired area had no scar tissue and looked great.



This will be the biggest area of concern is this scar tissue area. If this area ever were to shrink or start to misshape they would have to do a procedure to balloon it back open. If that did not work then another surgery would be required. This of course is a worst case scenario. We were also told she no longer needed to take the aspirin a day. We were told originally that it would be forever but the cardiologist today said that it was not necessary and she could stop it. In cases like Maddie's 6-8 months of the aspirin is all that is required.



The only medicine she is still on is the breathing treatment once a day. We do not see the pulmunologist until October and he will make a decision then as to the breathing treatments. Until then we are grateful for all of the exciting news at thought we would pass it on.

TTFN