First Cardiology Appointment

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Abbie has been out of the hospital for 4 weeks now! Yipee! We had our first cardiology check-up yesterday and everything went really well! It was a busy day for Abbie with a chest x-ray, a pacemaker check, an echocardiogram, and a blood draw. Poor little girl! She was a trooper though. Our cardiologist, Dr. Puchalski, said that everything looked good. Her heart function hasn't gotten any worse, and may have even improved a little since we left the hospital. Her pacemaker is working great, but no signs of her heart rythym coming back on it's own yet. We're still hoping that someday it will and she won't need the pacemaker anymore. Anyway, we don't have to go back for three whole months! Wahoo!

We have another appointment today for a swallow study to see if Abbie can handle feeding by mouth yet. If the test goes well, they will probably move the feeding tube up into her stomach and we will probably be able to try bottle feeds! It would be so great not to have her tethered to her food all the time! We'll let you know how that goes when we find out.

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