Rosie Is All Heart, Literally.

This morning was Rosies cardiac appointment at Children's.

She has decided without a shadow of a doubt that she just does NOT like nurses and doctors. She had to sit in a special little x-ray chair that resembled "Old Sparky" and that is when all the fussing started and it continued all the way through her her EKG. I have to say that for a children's hospital and one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country, no less, the nurses there are not at all kid friendly......very odd.

Anyway the bottom line is this: her heart is no better. She does have a pectus carinatum. She wiggled so much during her x-ray that it was hard to tell if she has scoliosis or not. Her spine was very crooked on the film but the doc wasn't sure if that was just because she was fighting us.(that was not the point for the xray but since we could see her spine we decided to check. The X-ray showed her heart to be enlarged specifically the right ventricle. Now I am no radiologist but I can tell you that this kid has a HUGE heart cos we saw the films. Andie is with us and she knows abit more about this than I do and she even commented. Ahhh, my little girl is all heart....literally. That will change after her surgery and eventually her body will grow into her heart and her heart will slowly return to normal size.

On September 29th Rosie Posie will be heading back to Children's and she will undergo a procedure in the cardiac cath lab and will stay there overnight and she will leave the next morning......(drumroll please) with a healthy heart.

So there you have it. We have a date and we are ready to do it. Jacob, of course, looked most uncomfortable with the news but with all the right meds I assured him he won't feel anything either.