4/22/12
Oh good. A new doctor.
I've avoided saying much because it is likely to be nothing. But just in case it is something, we could use your thoughts and prayers.
Dixie has been on ADHD medicine for the last year and the medicine she is one is a stimulant. Because her birth mother had a congenital heart defect, the psychiatrist we've recently started working with wanted to do an EKG just to double check that all was well before continuing on meds that can be hard on the heart.
We got the results jack about a month ago. We are either dealing with a defective test or a defective heart.
Tomorrow we go see the pediatric cardiologist at 10 a.m, heavily hoping it is the first option.
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Gretchen, Bob & I are both praying for you all. We are praying that the test is defective and that her heart is in great shape. I know this has to be so scary and so heart wrenching to go through. God is with you. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all. God bless. So sorry to hear that you are having to go through all of this. Love you.
You know, heart tests are often defective - especially EKG. I have a heart defect which should not cause abnormal EKG, but because every new doctor who hears about my defect wants to do SOME test, and every doctor has an EKG machine... About half my EKG results come back "abnormal". Then they order the 27th echocardiogram I've ever had, and everything is normal. This is not to say there is no reason to worry -I worry every time even though it's just the same old drill for me, and if it were my child I'd be even more worried. Just that there is a good chance everything else comes back normal. They will probably want to do an echocardiogram which can be a bummer for a young girl (oh, the poking around on my chest when I was a girl!) but it won't hurt, and it will likely come back normal. I'm praying for good news, calm nerves, that they don't even need the echo, and that if they do want it, it will come back and definitively prove her healthy heart. Because you all don't need one more thing and certainly not one more potentially big thing. So glad Dowlan is home now!
You know, heart tests are often defective - especially EKG. I have a heart defect which should not cause abnormal EKG, but because every new doctor who hears about my defect wants to do SOME test, and every doctor has an EKG machine... About half my EKG results come back "abnormal". Then they order the 27th echocardiogram I've ever had, and everything is normal. This is not to say there is no reason to worry -I worry every time even though it's just the same old drill for me, and if it were my child I'd be even more worried. Just that there is a good chance everything else comes back normal. They will probably want to do an echocardiogram which can be a bummer for a young girl (oh, the poking around on my chest when I was a girl!) but it won't hurt, and it will likely come back normal. I'm praying for good news, calm nerves, that they don't even need the echo, and that if they do want it, it will come back and definitively prove her healthy heart. Because you all don't need one more thing and certainly not one more potentially big thing. So glad Dowlan is home now!
My daughter has a heart defect, and I remember my heart going lower than the floor. We have a wonderful cardiologist, and she is doing well. IF Dixie has a heart issue, there's a lot that can be done. Keeping you in my prayers.
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