Wednesday, April 23, 2008

History of Broc's Heatlh - every 6 months.

We went to the card every 6 months for a check-up.The week before the app I was a wreck.I was worried that they would find something wrong again or that his pressures were climbing again.No-one really understood what I was feeling.If there was bad news I was the one to hear it first and deal with the blow myself.I would drop Mark at his grandparents in the morning and make the drive to South Bend.It was the most stressful drive I had to make.My heart was pounding.We would walk down the hallway and wait for the news.When the tech came in I would ask about the blood pressure and again they would tell me the dr had to talk with me.Broc had some health issues to deal with too.He would get pneumonia often and many upper respiratory infections.He also suffered from reflux.The card assured us that many children with CHD also had many reflux issues.Broc was on meds for the reflux too.Anyway off to the echo room to hear the looming news.Many times his pressures were in the 3o's and all was fine and then other times his pressures would climb higher and higher and the card would say well maybe next time we are looking at more intervention.Most of the time I would breathe a sigh of relief and realise that all is well.