Baby Update

Yesterday was our appointment down at Primary Children's Hospital. We had to get up at 5:30AM to make to the hospital by 9:30. It was a long drive, but at least they were pretty fast about bringing us back to have the echo done. The tech scanned for about an hour, took a gazillion pictures, then went and got one of the residents. He then scanned for about 20 minutes took More pictures, then he went and got the Cardiologist that was on for the day. She scanned for about 15-20 minutes, took MORE pictures then told me get ready and they would talk to us in another room. They took us to a room that had a nice comfy couch in it to talk to us. I was surprised about how fast they were coming in, they were just basically waiting for us and followed us right in the room. They told us that they didn't see any indications of DORV, which is what the perinatologist though it was. That is wonderful news, because what they are seeing he has isn't nearly as bad as that. What they are seeing is the he has Dextrocardia, or that his heart is tilted to the right side instead of the left. That in itself won't cause any problems, it's just not the way a "normal" heart sits. They also said that he has a third vein that is coming into the right side of his heart (normal is two) from the umbilical cord, and because of that the right side of his heart isn't pumping as well as the left side and there is a little fluid built up around his heart, and his tricuspid valve doesn't close as well as it should. But there is a chance that the extra vein could just correct itself, and if it does that the fluid and the sluggish pumping would just correct itself also. Which means he may not even have to have surgery, and we might be able to have him here. We have to go back down to PCMC in four weeks, and they will check him all out again and hopefully be able to tell us where we can have him at. All in all it was much better news then we were expecting, and thank you to all who fasted and had him and us in our prayers. We really appreciated it. Thank you, thank you, thank you!