Cardiology Check Up

On Tuesday, January 8, Colby had his 6 month Cardiology Check-up with Dr. Doyle.  Before his appointment, we were able to spend some time with Nadia and Suha!  I love visiting with them and wish we could do it more often.  These two are so much alike it is scary!  I think when Nadia gets her new heart and is out of the hospital, they are going to have a lot of fun together...and probably get into a lot of trouble together!

Colby's appointment was long but good!  He had an echo, EKG, weight, height, and sats...all of which received good reports.  Dr. Doyle said the echo showed that the Fenestration Hole left during the Fontan is very small and does not seem to be posing a problem at this time, so we are going to leave it alone for another year!!!  This was great news to us, because we had kind of prepared ourselves for a cath procedure to close it soon.  His sats are in the low to mid 90s, which is great for his anatomy!  He even grew an inch or so and is now a little over 3 ft tall and weighs 13.34 kg or 29.4 pounds!!

Colby was given a halter monitor to wear for 24 hours.  From what I understand, this is just a routine check for post Fontan patients.  He did amazingly well with this!  He even wore it to school with no problems.  He is such a great patient!!  We will mail the monitor back and should hear results in a week or two.  Dr. Doyle does not expect to find any problems, though.

"Dr. Love" was in rare form for the entire 2 hour appointment!  He even told the Cardiology Fellow that his name was Dr. Love like is written on his new t-shirt.  This little guy keeps us laughing constantly!  God truly blessed him with a BIG personality, and it is hard for anyone to not love him!