Happy Birthday Grandma Wisconsin!

Happy Birthday Grandma Wisconsin - wish we were closer so we could celebrate with you! Hazelnut would love to give you some birthday snuggles! xoxo

A 99% good report at the doctor's office today! Haley's Echo, EKG, saturations, and blood work looked great! Wonderfully her kidney value (creatinine) was back down within normal limits! I was so thrilled! :) The doctor said her heart function, bands, and stent all looked great.

The 1% worry in my opinion is that the speed at which the blood flows through the hole they created between the top two chambers in her heart is slightly increased. When she left the hospital it was ~2, at the 2nd recheck it was ~3, at the 3rd recheck it was ~3.5, and today it was up to 4.7. If the speed gets too high, it means that the hole is getting too small and they may have to do another catheter procedure to enlarge the hole. Dr. Wheller says we shouldn't worry about it and that it's not concerning until it reaches 7. Hopefully it will not continue to increase! Or if it does persist in increasing, hopefully it does it slowly enough that they can just enlarge the hole when they do the second hybrid procedure anyway. It just makes me nervous since it jumped up so much since last time, but I will try to listen to what Dr. Wheller tells me and try not to worry (to much).

Happily they were content with how much she's been eating since she's been gaining so well! They were amazed at how much weight she's been gaining considering how few calories she's been taking in - but they said it's wonderful and to keep doing what we're doing! :) Our little Haley-bug obviously knows how much she needs! The nurse we had today we hadn't seen in 4 weeks and she said it was amazing how much she'd grown - that she didn't even look like a heart baby! Yay!

It's always a bit of a traumatic day for Bug when we go up there, so we've been having some quality snuggly time this evening to try to make up for it. Here are some pictures of her cuddling with Daddy on the couch. :)

What a proud papa!