Hello Lovely Readers
As most of you know Cooper was diagnosed with a heart murmur tow weeks ago . We had our first cardiology appointment on Wednesday and after a long morning and a bunch of test we finally have some information!
First: heart murmurs are very very common, 30% off all children have a murmur at some point in there life. A murmur only means that the heart is making a different noise than normal, the tests are to check see why the noise is present. Thus, there are many many different kind of murmurs. Most murmurs are "functional" and the children can live until they are 110 years old and never worry about it.
Here is the Scoop on our Coop
His murmur is due to his Pulmonary veins ( the veins that lead the blood from the heart to the lungs) being very narrow. Because they are so narrow his right ventricle ( the bottom right potion of his heart) is being over worked and is thicker than normal.
At this point he is fine, we will be going on follow up appointments over the next few months to make sure that the Pulmonary veins are not narrowing more as he grows. If they stay like they are now Cooper will lead a very active life and no one will know any diffrent. The news was a little more serious than we thought but not horrible news. The cardiologist thinks he will be fine since he has gained a good amount of weight and has great oxygen levels. They were very reassuring and optimistic.... which makes us feel like everything will be fine as well!
We will keep you posted after our next appointment! Thank you all so much for you prayers, emails etc.
2 comments:
glad to hear the positive news on Cooper. He is a strong little guy and we will keep him in our prayers
Hey Ash. Just checking in on your cute blog. I just wanted to tell you that I have a heart murmur and I just have to get it checked every five years. They didn't even notice it until I had a physical before jr. high as far as I remember. Every dr. notices it and asks if I have had it checked. But it has never given me any problems just an irregular heart beat is all. I don't know if that makes you feel any better but just thought I would share and he will be in our prayers of course. Can't wait to meet him. When? How is your hair??
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