{"id":1817,"date":"2009-06-25T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T17:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2009-06-25T12:19:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T17:19:12","slug":"musc-cardiology-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=1817","title":{"rendered":"MUSC Cardiology Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yay!\u00a0 Mary Clare had a great check-up yesterday with Dr. Forbus, her cardiologist at MUSC.\u00a0 I was a bit nervous aobut the echo and EKG because it has been a while, and well<\/em>, she is two and is completely acting like it these days.\u00a0 First and foremost, her heart function looked great!\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 Can you believe it has been a year since her last echo?\u00a0 (I didn’t realize that and couldn’t believe it!)\u00a0 Her EKG also looked great!\u00a0\u00a0 She sat very quietly through both the echo and EKG!\u00a0 (I couldn’t believe that either.)\u00a0 If you have ever had either you know what I mean.\u00a0 She has to have about 15 “stickers” and wires placed on her chest and sit still and quiet for a few minutes (consecutive minutes) before a good reading, and it took no time for Miss Mary Clare.\u00a0 Her echo went just as well.\u00a0 She jumped up on the table in the dark room, allowed the ulrasound tech to apply jelly and “take pictures” for quite a while.\u00a0 I was completely amazed.\u00a0 I’ve never seen Mary Clare so content and quiet.<\/p>\n

She charmed all of the nurses and doctors, as usual, and was a complete doll for her entire three hour visit.\u00a0 She is up to 23 lbs and her O2 saturation levels were in the upper 80’s!\u00a0 BP also looked great.\u00a0 A “little blue,” but that seems to be typical for Mary Clare.\u00a0 (Although, it was a bit difficult to read her fingernail color, as they typically do to get a good color check.\u00a0 Mary Clare’s nail color just happened to be Double Decker Red<\/em>, thanks to Aunt Kate.)<\/p>\n

Since her heart function looks great, all we do now is wait.\u00a0 She needs to be about 30 pounds for her next surgery, the Fontan<\/a>, unless her oxygen levels begin to drop, in which case, they will operate sooner.\u00a0 Her next appointment isn’t until December. \u00a0 She will have another echo, EKG and blood work to check her blood gas levels.\u00a0 What a relief to know that she is as healthy on the inside as she seems to be on the outside!\u00a0\u00a0 Now Mary Clare and I can focus on more important matters, like a Tutu for 2 birthday party this weekend!\u00a0 We have plenty of pink princess tutu’s and sparkle rice krispy treat wands to make!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yay!\u00a0 Mary Clare had a great check-up yesterday with Dr. Forbus, her cardiologist at MUSC.\u00a0 I was a bit nervous aobut the echo and EKG because it has been a while, and well, she is two and is completely acting like it these days.\u00a0 First and foremost, her heart function looked great!\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 Can you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}