We went to Blair E Batson Children's Hospital to visit with a children's cardiologist (heart doctor) at the crack of dawn...tomorrow our appointment starts at 7:30. I'm still trying to recover from 6 days of work last week...I started on Sunday with our National Sales Meeting. This week I am still dragging.
Just a funny thing the lady who checked me in asked...she was going over our insurance information and asked if Adam Terhune was my husband. YES
The next words out of her mouth: "Is Adam a male?"
So many things I could say about this, but I'll move on...
I asked my mom to send me an email putting what the doctor said in PLAIN ENGLISH. Here it is:
Dr. S said that Battley has an abnormal opening in the wall between the two lower chambers of her heart. She did not describe the size of it, but even I could see it on the sonogram. This opening allows deoxygenated blood returning to the heart to mix with the blood which is transported from the heart to her body tissues after it has been loaded with oxygen in her lungs. So the effect is that the blood which goes to her tissue carries less oxygen than normal. This is not a new finding. The perinatal specialist saw this when he saw Catherine at 20 weeks.
Dr. S did tell us about a new finding which is actually a blessing. The pulmonary artery has some thickening or stenosis. In Battley’s situation, this will be a good thing because it will decrease the blood flow to the lungs from the heart and keep her lungs from receiving too much blood for the lungs to accommodate. That condition is commonly known as congestive heart failure and the thickening or stenosis of the pulmonary artery will prevent that.
So...YEA! What an answer to prayer! In short...she will not need surgery to fix this even if it was offered. I'm not sure if I have shared this or not, but we have been told that no doctor around here would want to do surgery on a T18 baby because they don't usually make it through the surgery.
We will not plan to go back to the cardiologist unless a need arises later.
Tomorrow is the 4d ultrasound...we are SO excited to see her!
A good friend passed this scripture on to me:
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55:9
It's hard to understand God and His plans sometimes...we are just working on having faith. This reminds me that He doesn't think like we do and we can't possibly understand WHY some things happen. We can just take comfort in knowing that someday we will know.
C
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