Lucas update

Today Lucas had an appointment with a pediatric cardiologist to follow up after his ECHO that was done almost 2 weeks ago. And we are happy to have some good news. It looks like he has a ventricular septal defect. In none medical terms, he has a small opening in the wall that separates the 2 sides of the lower heart. When the heart pumps the blood back out into the body, a small amount is flowing back into the other ventricular which flows back into the lungs. The doctor listened to his heart and did not hear much of a murmur, so he decided to do another ECHO so he could see the heart as well. As I said, he does have a small hole/opening but it looks like it actually closing up when he breathes, so not much blood is flowing back. Very good news. The doctor says that it will either stay the same size, or get smaller as he gets older and will not require any type of surgery. So at this time, they are going to see him again in 6 weeks for a followup. And then hopefully won't have to see him much at all. So like I said, very good news.

Lucas update

So it seems that Lucas really is going to be stubborn. When he was born, the doctor noticed a slight heart murmur but did not seem too worried about it. He checked it again at his 2 week appointment and he still had it, but it was not as bad. The doctor wanted Lucas to get an ECHO done to see what is going on. If there is something there, he wanted to catch it early. So we went yesterday to Cardinal Glennon yesterday. Lucas did very well and only got a little fussy a couple of times. The pediatrician has already received the results and it seems that Lucas has a slight heart defect. He wants Lucas to see a heart specialist to look at it closer but he still does not seem very worried about it. So we will go back to Cardinal Glennon sometime next week to see the specialist and will update when we know more.