hi all!
i have missed everyone here so much. i've been so busy doing so many things and our youngest daughter is about to start "college shopping" so, more busy times_ but good ones!
about a year ago i decided to take both our daugters to be checked by a cardio (since joey's bicuspid was most likely congenital). our eldest got a perfectly clean bill of health.
our youngest, who is ultra fit and a strong dancer (up to 6 hours a day in summers and 3-4 hrs every day during the year), however, had an odd delay in her pulse from her arm to her leg. also, her b.p. was lower in her leg.
despite the fact that she is in such great shape, the cardio suggested we get her checked before she leaves for college in a few years. he mentioned coarctation of the aorta, but said that the delay and the b.p. were the ONLY symptoms she has and that if it should turn out to be this, it would be so mild that most likely nothing would ever need to be done about it.
the summer after this finding, this wonderful cardio calls me up again and says he wants to make sure his findings were right, would i please schedule some time for him to check her again. we do, he does, and he finds the same things.
he was not alarmed and said we'd keep an eye on it.
a week later, i get a call from him telling me that although he really doubts it is anything more than trivial, if that, he would like to KNOW what this discrepancy is all about. he gives me a name of a cardio at columbia presbyterian who is liaison between mri's and pediatric cardiology.
we saw dr. beth printz last week and she gave jamie a thorough echo (from all sides!!!!!). after finding that there is no narrowing, she said "it's so nice to listen to a healthy heart"_ hence no need for an mri....
her cardio will just check her annually.
i have been a nervous wreck about this. at one point during the echo jamie looked at me and said that she knew i was nervous because i was as red as a cherry (i get that way when i'm nervous).
i feel so blessed.
those of you who have children with heart issues, i truly could almost feel what it's like to be in your shoes...
thank you all for always being there for me.
i'm glad to see that all of you are doing well.
-sylvia
i have missed everyone here so much. i've been so busy doing so many things and our youngest daughter is about to start "college shopping" so, more busy times_ but good ones!
about a year ago i decided to take both our daugters to be checked by a cardio (since joey's bicuspid was most likely congenital). our eldest got a perfectly clean bill of health.
our youngest, who is ultra fit and a strong dancer (up to 6 hours a day in summers and 3-4 hrs every day during the year), however, had an odd delay in her pulse from her arm to her leg. also, her b.p. was lower in her leg.
despite the fact that she is in such great shape, the cardio suggested we get her checked before she leaves for college in a few years. he mentioned coarctation of the aorta, but said that the delay and the b.p. were the ONLY symptoms she has and that if it should turn out to be this, it would be so mild that most likely nothing would ever need to be done about it.
the summer after this finding, this wonderful cardio calls me up again and says he wants to make sure his findings were right, would i please schedule some time for him to check her again. we do, he does, and he finds the same things.
he was not alarmed and said we'd keep an eye on it.
a week later, i get a call from him telling me that although he really doubts it is anything more than trivial, if that, he would like to KNOW what this discrepancy is all about. he gives me a name of a cardio at columbia presbyterian who is liaison between mri's and pediatric cardiology.
we saw dr. beth printz last week and she gave jamie a thorough echo (from all sides!!!!!). after finding that there is no narrowing, she said "it's so nice to listen to a healthy heart"_ hence no need for an mri....
her cardio will just check her annually.
i have been a nervous wreck about this. at one point during the echo jamie looked at me and said that she knew i was nervous because i was as red as a cherry (i get that way when i'm nervous).
i feel so blessed.
those of you who have children with heart issues, i truly could almost feel what it's like to be in your shoes...
thank you all for always being there for me.
i'm glad to see that all of you are doing well.
-sylvia
