Lots to catch up on

This has been one crazy week, and I hope it is getting better.

So monday started it all, Arianna woke with a mild fever so I kept her home from school. I was needing to go into my hubbs shop to work on the bills, but with Arna home I couldn't. My sweet mom offered to watch her for me, so on my way to the shop I get a flat tire. My sweet hubbs came to my rescue and changed the tire, yet my spare was on the verge of flat itself. I limped into the gas station and filled it up. I then had to scrap working, it was time to pick Kenna up from school. My mom offered to come back later after she took care of some things. So after lunch she came back and I headed out, and still nothing went right. I was missing lots of paper work, so I couldn't get my work done, and it was time for my mom to pick up my nephew, so I ran out to pick him up from school. I got back home to hear that Cardiology had called, Arianna had an ECHO scheduled on Tuesday, made the appt back in Feb. So I call back and the sedation nurse is concerned about doing the procedure, they want her to go under general anesthesia, which requires and OR and an anesthesiologist. They were working on getting her into the OR for Tuesday, but no guarantee. I waited for two hours, going crazy, when they called back and told me they could fit her in. We has to be there at 6:30 a.m.

So Tuesday started early, had to wake up at 12:00 a.m. to stop her feed, then again at 4:00 a.m. to give her a bolus of clear liquids. Back up at 5:00 to get in the shower and be ready to leave home by 5:50. On the road I hit every red light. At the hospital we waited it the pre-op room for an hour and a half before it was her turn to go in. the procedure was to take only an hour, but took an hour and a half, took a while to get an IV started. Then another hour in recovery, she had a really rough time coming out of the anesthesia, just cried. I still had to go down to see her cardiologist, but the sweet nurse called him and asked if he could come see her in post-op, and he did. The results were not what I wanted to hear, her plumo pressures were high, at least 80, he gave my the options, not worth going into. We soon were packing up and heading home.

My mom and sister-in law kept Kenna for the afternoon so that I could catch a few winks.

I noticed when I got home that I had missed a few text msgs, one from Matt's bro and his wife. Little baby boy Cooper had been born late on Monday night, what a cutie. So that had cheered me up.

Arianna's cardiologist called me at home, he said he missed telling me a few things from the ECHO, he spent some more time looking at it and the report. He said the the right wall of her heart had not increased in thickness, meaning her heart was not working any harder, so it may be possible that her plumo pressure was not as high as he first thought. He wanted be to increase her Amlodipine med, helps to lower the blood pressure. He wants me to consider going into the cath-lab to get a better look at those pressures. All this made me feel much better.



Matt and I took a trip to the hospital to meet Cooper. He is so little and so sweet, I think I have forgotten how little newborn babies are. I think that this was the best way to end the day, filled my heart with joy.



Today is going to be a much better day, even though they skies are cloudy. Kenna is going off track today and we are going to have some good time alone together before Arianna gets back from school!

It can only go up from here!!!