Last Tue. night Evan woke up running a temperature and complaining of his ear. By complaining I mean screaming "my ear, my ear" over and over. Poor thing. He finally calmed down and sat up in bed and watched TV. I got an appointment for him the next morning and of course he fell back asleep just when it was time to get him up to get ready. This is his first ear infection since he was 3 months old. We missed 2 full nights of sleep. Thankfully the medicine kicked in and he is all better now, just 2 days of meds left. Funny story about the medicine... The Dr. came in and looked him over and said, "Evan, you have an ear infection... I wonder what kind of medicine I should prescribe you." Evan responded with, "well, I know what your not going to give me and that's liquids. I vomit liquids and I need a shot or a pill and I like the plastic pills best." When we got home and I opened his medicine bottle and pulled out this huge 500mg Augmentin pills I thought he would change his mind but nope... he was so happy it wasn't liquid. Crazy kid.
Last Thur. we had a cardio appointment. This was our first since November so I was anxious to get back and see what our cardio had to say. After his echo he told us that there is just no way to know what exactly is going on with that left pulmonary artery without doing a cath. They can tell that the artery is narrowed with the echo but not why. The valve is doing great, no leaks. He thinks they should do a cath. to find out why the artery is narrowed. He believes Evan's body has caused it. He does believe the surgery will need to be done again soon and probably this Summer. We are going back in Mar. and will probably schedule a cath. for Spring break. At this point his heart was not enlarged so it seems to be handling this well. Evan's lpa has always been small and been the main reason for cath's/surgery. If Evan's body *causes* it narrow I asked wouldn't it just continue on a new one. The response was if that was why then yes but if they were able to put a really big one in and it narrowed a little bit and he didn't grow a lot it would be good enough. Evan had a huge growth spurt after this last surgery. Like 10lbs. and 2 inches in 6 months. The hopes were and would be again if the surgery was redone, that the artery would last until adulthood where they could do it one last time. In the mean time Evan is doing just fine so, we'll see in March what they say.
This was after the first snow looking out off our deck.
Evan and his snowman.
