Echo

Allie had an echocardiogram today. We won’t get the results for about a week since they send them to the pediatric cardiologist in Sacramento. But I'm not too worried about it.

She’s had a heart murmur I believe since she was born. The pediatrician said it sounded like it was an “innocent heart murmur” but since we have met our insurance deductible for the year we should go ahead and have it checked out now. I’ve been putting it off for a few months but finally decided to go ahead and get it done before the end of the year.

I was postponing it because they needed her to lie completely still for about 40 minutes to get everything done. Allie can’t even get through a meal without wanting to run around like a wild child. They took pictures, sound, and video from about 5 different angles. They were really great. They turned off the lights, turned on cartoons, left the room, and let me give her a bottle and rock her to sleep. Then once she was a sleep they came back in and did the echo. So, she pretty much slept through the whole thing. From my perspective, it couldn’t have gone better. It was trauma free.