Next Heart Cath. Scheduled

Yesterday Lynnea had another cardiology visit at the U of M. Her cardiologist, Dr. Gruenstein, is cautiously optimistic about how her pulmonary vein is looking; unfortunately he can't say for sure that things are really going better because it's hard to get a good look at it with an echocardiogram, and since Lynnea hate having echocardiograms and is not very cooperative during them, it's even harder to get a really great look at anything. He'll know more after her next heart catherization, which is currently scheduled for 11am on Thursday, Dec. 17 -- she's on the waiting list if something opens up sooner than that, but so far it looks like it will be next Thursday. Even though her pulmonary vein appeared to look better than we had expected, her heart function is not very good right now, most likely because she needs a bigger B-T shunt (which we've known for the last couple of months), and possibly due to the narrowing in her aorta. Again, we'll know more after the next heart cath., and from there we should have a better idea of what the surgical plan will be (mainly, how soon she will need to have surgery to replace her shunt).