Strider Cardio update - no news is good news!
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...