Piper's Cardiologist Appointment!

Today Erik and I took Piper to the hospital for her first cardiology appointment. This is my best attempt to explain what we heard today! We were very impressed with the cardiac center! They made us feel like Piper was the most important patient there today! We spent four hours having tests done on Piper's heart and speaking with her cardiologist! Piper had an EKG and an echo. She needed to be sedated for the echo. There was no way Piper could have stayed still long enough to get all of the pictures of her heart they needed without being sedated! The technician captured over 130 images of her heart! It took about 50 minutes to get all of the images of her heart. Her diagnosis is a double right ventricle outlet. This essentially means that both her pulmonary artery and aorta are coming out of the right side of her heart. She also has a rather large VSD. The VSD is actually allowing the deoxygenated blood and the oxygenated blood to mix. The cardiologist said that this is natures way of keeping Piper's heart working and allowing oxygen to get into her body! Piper will be scheduled for a cath lab in the next week or two. This will allow the cardiologist to get more detailed information about Piper's heart functioning! She will present Piper's information to the other cardiac doctors. They will determine which of the two options for surgery will be best for Piper's heart condition! We feel very blessed to have A.I. Dupont Hosptial so close to our home. They have taken such good care of all of our children!