Monday, July 17, 2006

New cath and surgery date

First of all let me tell you all about the latest drama. I took Drew to the ER the week before her surgery b/c she had that virus, they gave her fluids and sent her home. We go to do the heart cath and they cancel b/c of her weight lose and her not looking her best. Well last wednesday A nurse from Children's called and said to take her to the ER to check and see if she needed more fluids. I took her and the ER Doc did bloodwork and said she was fine and sent us home. We went friday to her pediatrician to just go and do a routine check after you have gone to the ER. The pediatrician was out of ton and the Doc taking his place was the ER doc from the first visit 2 weeks ago. I told her Drew had diarrhea still and she wanted to admit Drew to the hospital b/c of that. They said that was the only way to stop it. I did not feel comfortable with making that kind of decision so I made a couple phone calls to the cardiologists and they said to hold off on that until Monday. I just could not make that decision, I was somewhat confused b/c if they should have done that 2 days before when we were in the ER (different doc). I am so glad we decided to wait b/c she is completely fine now and eating EVERYTHING! She is now back to her original weight or actually 1 ounce shy but still that is awesome. She still only weighs 14 pounds 10 ounces but that is way better than the 13 lbs. 08 ounces that she had dropped down to.

Drew's heart cath is being scheduled for sometime during the day on Wednesday and her open heart surgery will be on July 28. Dr. Bob rathered to 2 procedures be spaced apart to give her time to rest which I totally agree with. The heart cath should be an in and out procedure so we won't need to stay overnight, but you never know and they may want to keep her for just one night.

We are now on lockdown so Drew doesn't catch any germs, sorry for missing any parties and such we can't take a chance.

Thank you all for your prayers, we apprecite each and every one of them.

1 comment:

amber said...

Yes, that is indeed Steve on the pink phone. LOL. Had to get a pic of that! Glad to hear she is finally better. Cannot blame you for being in lockdown. Definitely don't want her getting sick again!