I have decided to start this blog as a place to talk about any health issues that Gabby might have. As many of you know, she was born with a congenital heart defect called tetralogy of Fallot on 11/1/05. In addition to her heart issues, she's been delayed on almost all of her gross motor milestones, and she's very small. (At the age of 43 months, she was the size of a 27 month old.) In the next 16 days, she has 3 appointments at Children's Hospital of Seattle. The first 2 (7/21 & 7/24) are to evaluate her short stature in both the genetics and endocrine departments. Then she has a cardiology follow-up complete with chest x-ray, EKG & echocardiogram on 8/3. At this time, she has cardiology appointments every 6 months. I have no idea how often, if at all, we will follow-up with the other departments.
I intend for my next posting to be about what has happened with Gabby thus far. It's been a long and winding road, but she's been doing well for some while now, which, is, of course, the good news.
And other postings will talk about life in between medical stuff. Fortunately for us, the medical stuff doesn't happen anywhere near as often as it used to. While she may have some medical issues, she is a bright, energetic, smart kid. Plus she has a sister, Sarah, who is 20 months older than her and who also has her own adventures! I'll talk about them here, too.
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The tales and adventures of Gabby, her sister Sarah & mom, Linda
This is a blog about having a child with a congenital heart defect called tetralogy of Fallot. This will be a good place to go to keep up to date about any doctor appointments that Gabby may have (much fewer than they've been in the past), and to hear about all of the fun day-to-day stuff that happens in between.
Check out the memorial blog about my late husband (and Sarah & Gabby's dad) at http://jackdarkhand.blogspot.com/
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