We took Ella Cate to the cardiologist again today for a checkup. She weighed in at 8 lbs. 13 oz. They did an EKG and the results of that were about the same as it's been. Then they did an echo and the results of that had changed a little bit. The doctor advised us that one of her valves appears to have gotten a little worse since the last time we did an echo. He said that we needed to go ahead and do the heart cath. We asked him when he was looking at doing that and he said "Tomorrow." We were shocked! The reality quickly set in that our child was having a heart procedure in the morning.
The doctor advised us that while doing the cath, he will probably go ahead and balloon both the pulmonary and aortic valves. There are obvious risks involved anytime you have a procedure done on an infant and especially on an infants heart. However, the success rate is incredibly high for this particular procedure. The main thing we need to pray about with this procedure is that after they balloon the valves, that blood does not regurgitate back into the ventricles of the heart. Some regurgitation is likely and acceptable but too much will cause problems and then they will have to do open heart surgery and replace the valves. We are hoping and praying that this heart cath will fix all her problems.
Please pray for Ella (and us as well) tomorrow that everything will go as planned. We knew all along that we were probably looking at at least doing a heart cath but we were not at all prepared today for the news that her heart cath would be tomorrow. Please pray for us.
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