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Strider Cardio update - no news is good news!

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Yesterday was Strider's yearly Cardiology appointment (EKG and Echocardiogram), and it marked another year of holding our breath to see what the outcome would be. Such is the heart parent life....you never fully relax. We have now been blessed with 5 years of "no news is good news". In other words, there are no changes to report. The heart function is good, the leaky valve is still leaky (but no more than usual). The fenestration is still open, but it's small, and his O2 sats (oxygen saturation) are at 97%. That's a good number for most heart kids, so we'll take it. Brad inquired about closing the fenestration (since it never closed on its own) to improve his O2 sats even more, but the Cardiologist feels that he is doing really well, and it is not worth putting him through a cath (catherization) procedure. I completely agree, because I know full well that caths comes with their own risks. The doc also said that as he gets older, and his heart grows, the hole c...
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Day 4 - NY Road Trip

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Well, this post will be mostly pictures. When you get up close with a multitude of cute, colorful farm animals, you tend to get a little snap happy....well, at least I do anyway! On Sunday, Brad and I took the kids to the Franklin County Fair in Malone. It was the last weekend of the fair, and it's been an annual tradition in the area for 168 years. I was expecting an itty bitty country fair, but it was a good size, with lots to do. They have concerts, tractor pulls, 4H competitions, loads of food, amusement rides, game booths, etc....just to name a few. After getting our tickets, Serenity and I made a beeline for the animal barns. Brad and Strider went with us into the poultry barn, but Strider only lasted 3 minutes before Brad took him out because it was too noisy for him to handle. It was a long barn filled with clucks, quacks, honks, cocka-doodle-doos, gobbles, and lord knows what else! It was every domestic bird imaginable, along with  some mor...
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