We made it through Parker’s EKG. Although if I were honest, I’d tell you that I’m still hanging from the ceiling by my fingernails.
Hopefully I’ll work my way back down in the next few days
However, I make no promises.
Parker’s EKG showed about the same results as the one he had three months ago.
I know I said that I would be happy if Tuesday’s results came back the same as the previous one.
I lied.
Blatantly.
From the very bottom of my tippy toes.
What I really yearned to hear was that everything looked normal!
Normal!
No different than any other healthy kid’s results would come in at.
Yeah, I’m the one who is always harping about how boring normal is. About the beauty that lies within different.
But in this one instance I covet the boring of normal over the terrifying of pulmonary hypertension.
What can I say? I’m a wimp.
The bottom line is that Parker’s left heart looks as though it is functioning the way it should.
The right side of his heart is still enlarged. Which is referred to as being abnormal.
Here are two of Parker’s EKGs.
This is from 2005. See how far up those funky lines go. Like totally out of the borders of the graph?
Yeah. That’s not good.
That is what circling the drain looks like.
This is Parker’s EKG from Tuesday. The top lines are still too tall. They go up too many boxes on the graph. It tells us the right side of Parker’s heart is working too hard.
This is abnormal for an EKG.
But still better than circling the drain.
We are in the process of scheduling another right heart cath. It will be in about two weeks.
Because we refuse to give up our goal of achieving normal and healthy for our Brave Hero.
He deserves nothing less.
Twitter: therextras
says:
NOT agreeing with you being a wimp. Nope. I declare you a ‘pioneer’ – in my post today.
Have you heard of ‘Helping Little Hearts’?
http://www.chifund.org/index.php
Praying for Parker. And pioneer Tammy
I’m so sorry it wasn’t better news.
‘Course you know I was trying to read the thing from the picture, lol. It’s almost a good enough pic to interpret it. Anyhow, it doesn’t look too bad from what I can see. Think of it as a battle scar. Maybe it will never be ‘normal’ but functional is great. Hugs on the cath, though. I hope Reed can take him for your sake.
Twitter: MommaHopeful
says:
Praying extra hard (for all of you..especially mom!)…keep us posted of dates and things of the like. It’s times like this that have us mom’s grabbing for any straw…and I hate that.
keeping you guys in our prayers!
Hugs to you, sweetie.
You are definitely not a wimp! And you are right… he deserves nothing less. He is a Brave Hero!
Praying for Parker!
Twitter: mamikaze
says:
It’s all about how he is functioning with his enlarged heart. My grandmother has lived more than 75 years with unstable angina pectoris and full-blown pulmonary hypertension. Maybe what they are seeing is HIS typical and his body knows how to handle it. Hang in there, Tammy.
Twitter: valmg
says:
Tammy,
I’ll say a prayer for you and Parker.
I can’t pretend I totally understand this as my son’s heart problem doesn’t require surgical intervention but I can only imagine.