June 24th, No Sedation Necessary

We start this entry at the DeVos Children’s Hospital on June 24th. This was the appointment with the non-sedated echocardiogram. They wanted to sedate Nina but Melissa made the bold call telling them they could probably get the results they needed during her nap. The tech was awesome, letting Melissa hop right up on the gurney with Nina to hold her until the nap set in, and Mommy’s instincts were right; Nina slept soundly and they got some great pictures. Even better, we got some great news that day, as you may recall. In essence, Nina’s not in any immediate danger, and we’re going to put off surgery for a year.

When the doctor was giving us feedback on Nina he expressed that he had had his doubts that she could hold still enough, but that he had been wrong. Very proud of Melissa for knowing Nina so well, and making a great call.

Finally, the cardiologist explained that he was going to show the images at a conference to get other doctor’s opinions of how she’s doing. Now, hopefully this won’t confuse anybody too much, but I’m going to go ahead and put the voice mail that we received on July 11th here in this entry, to keep that information together.

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Click here to hear what our doctor had to report on July 11th, after the conference.

Here’s some videos from that visit!

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Click here to see Nina look at a bubble-wall and say “pop! pop!”

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Click here to see Nina play with a hospital room toy that has a little ambulance and police car on it… siren sound effect provided (with great skill!) from Nina.

After we got back from seeing the doctor, we picked up Ian…

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Click here to see Ian in an impossibly good mood! I wish we’d see more of these! (I notice the audio is out of sync with the video. Investigating.)