{"id":4626,"date":"2010-10-12T19:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T00:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4626"},"modified":"2010-10-12T19:54:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T00:54:46","slug":"a-sweet-clinic-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4626","title":{"rendered":"A Sweet Clinic Visit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, we headed back down to MUSC for a cardiology clinic visit for Mary Clare.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a relatively short visit, especially considering we were about 45 minutes late!\u00a0\u00a0 (Mel has a habit of being preoccupied with his phone calls as he drives and often takes slight<\/em> detours.\u00a0 Of course, I didn’t notice until we were about 20 minutes off course, either.)\u00a0 We were seen immediately after our late arrival.\u00a0 (I guess being the sole patients left to see and at lunchtime helped.)\u00a0 We were able to visit with lots of our MUSC friends and really catch up, something we usually don’t have much time for when they have lots of other patients to see.\u00a0 It was nice to have the time to really talk and catch up.<\/p>\n

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This was taken with my iPhone just before she assaulted the Lab Tech.\u00a0 (wink)\u00a0 Mary Clare is always so great with ECG’s, echos and her general clinic visits, but when she saw the phlebotomist, she knew exactly what was coming.\u00a0 She began to cry and even told the tech to, “Go Away” as she hit<\/span> pushed her.\u00a0 A few determined shouts later, she stopped crying even before the needle was out.\u00a0 What a champ.<\/p>\n

After the usual check-up, and discussions with Dr. Forbus, MC’s cardiologist, we determined our best bet is to wait until Miss Priss gains weight.\u00a0 Her numbers from her recent cath are excellent, her O2 sats were 85 today, and after blood work, it was determined her heart squeeze couldn’t be better!\u00a0 Physically, her body is as good as it gets.\u00a0 However, she only weighs 13.3 KG\/28 lbs.\u00a0 Ideally, Dr. Bradley, her cardiothoracic surgeon, would like her to be 15 KGs.\u00a0 Dr. Forbus told us that he really wants her to gain the extra weight and Dr. Bradley generally doesn’t prefer to do the Fontan during prime flu\/sick season, unless absolutely necessary.\u00a0 So, we are probably are looking at surgery in the Spring.\u00a0 Her blood work also ruled out a few other concerns we’ve had, and that was a relief.\u00a0 (Dr. Forbus wanted to check for Juvenile Diabetes and deficiencies in her blood.)\u00a0 All is great!\u00a0 To celebrate, we headed to one of our favorite stops in Charleston, Market Street Sweets!\u00a0 (Ironically)<\/p>\n

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It was a balmy 95 degrees and beautifully sunny downtown Charleston; but my girls are natural Fall lovers and are so ready for “Boot Season.”\u00a0 (They are their own fasionistas in any season, however.)\u00a0 Either way, they certainly love their boots!\u00a0 What a great day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, we headed back down to MUSC for a cardiology clinic visit for Mary Clare.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a relatively short visit, especially considering we were about 45 minutes late!\u00a0\u00a0 (Mel has a habit of being preoccupied with his phone calls as he drives and often takes slight detours.\u00a0 Of course, I didn’t notice until we […]<\/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-4626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626","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=4626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4626\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}