Our Health

My baby, isn't she so sweet!

I have been to 3 different doctors appointments this week. One for myself, one for Rylee, and one for Jenna. I have been having intermintent chest pains and difficulty breathing. I ketp putting off calling the Dr. but finally decided I better have it checked out. My EKG was normal and so was all my blood work (they checked for lots of things) so now I am wearing a little heart monitor for 2 weeks. I am suppose to wear it 24/7 except when showering or swimming and any time I feel my syptoms I push a button to record for a minute or so. I started wearing it on Tuesday and have had no syptoms since I have had it on, go figure. Anyway, we will see what it says. Ry unfortunately has plantars warts on her foot and a little bit of athlete's foot. I am sure it is due to the fact that she never wears shoes and is at the gym 12 hours a week. I just hope the plantars worts will go away, from what I understand they are a little tricky to treat. Jenna had her appointment with the pediatric cardiologist to see about the heart murmur her Dr found at her 5 year check up. I feel very blessed to live so close to such an incredible children's hospital like Primary's. I love how they treated Jenna as well as Mike & I. She had an EKG like I did. She also had an Echo (an ultrasound of her heart). She had to lay there for 1/2 an hour or so and was so good. They let her pick a movie and she laid back and watched while I sat and watched the "movie" of her heart. To me it was all very interesting. I am glad I recently finished my anatomy and physiology classes so that I understood most of what the Dr talked to us about. I was also able to listen and could hear her murmur which sounded like water running over rocks in a stream, weird. She has PDA (patent ductus arteriolis) which means that one of her ducts that she needed in utero never fully closed off. Her left atria is also a little dialated from working a little extra. She is going to have a procedure done on July 22 to fix it. They will go in with a catheter through an artery in her groin. They will then "drop off" a tiny coil that will close up her little hole. It is an outpatient procedure so should not be too bad. I am just grateful they can do it that way instead of surgery. I see lots of sick people working at the ER and feel very blessed each day for my family's health. I also feel very blessed to have health insurance (even though Ithink that whole system needs an overhaul) and wonderful facilities and dr.s right here in our backyard.