So Thursday we had a sedated ECHO done on Lorelei at MUSC. We drove down that morning and she was hungry and frustrated with being in her carseat so long that she cried so hard she threw up, at least we were almost to MUSC so we could change her. We got there and she was hilarious with having low blood sugar, she was trying to do somersaults on the bed in the room. She was given the Chloral Hydrate to put her to sleep and the ECHO was done in about 20 minutes, she slept for 3 hours!
Dr. Atz came and talked to us because Dr. Bradley (her surgeon) was MIA come to find out he was in an emergency surgery! He said that she does need another surgery because there is some fibrous tissue beneath her aortic valve that needs to be "carved" out. He said that Dr. Bradley would be able to measure her aortic valve when in surgery and they do think that it is growing, which is good because when they did her first surgery they weren't sure that it would.
We are now just waiting for MUSC to call us with a surgery date. I am anxiously waiting and will let everyone know when I know.
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