Tuesday, July 22, 2008

It gives you Super Hero Powers....

During our last visit to the Pediatrician we were informed that they noticed and irregularity in Kaydon's heartbeat! She kept re-listening and then decided that we needed to go see a pediatric Cardiologist!!! Talk about some scary words for a parent to hear. She stayed that everything may come out fine, she just feels that it needs to be looked into. We weren't in panic mode because we figured if it was urgent they would have sent us straight to the Hospital and not make an appointment.
It took a couple weeks to get him in, and we prayed a lot that he would be just fine and if there was anything the Dr.'s would find it now. He went in for his first EKG at 8:00am ( I am surprised at the lack of compassion and "child-like" bedside manners that they had with him) but the Dr. informed us that it looked "in the normal range". Good news!!! After a few more questions he had for us, he decided to send him home with a monitor for 24 hours to see what his little heart did through the day and how it reacted to things. What a trooper Kaydon was wearing this belt and cords all day! He never complained- even when he had to sleep with it on. His biggest concern was that people were going to make fun of him :( We just told him it made him look like he was a super hero and he loved that.
They said that it would take about 72 hours to download all the EKG's it took- over 50 pages-! Then the Dr. will go through and look at our diary of EVERYTHING he did for that 24 hour period. We had to note when he walked up stairs, ate, cried... etc!!!! They will call after that with the results! Keep praying that everything is fine and that this is just a precaution!

1 comments:

The Kempiak Party of Five said...

You thought quickly with the Superhero idea. WOW! Great idea.

Oh that picture.

I'm so sorry you had such poor bedside manner from the doctor. Having that would have been such a blessing.

Praying until the results come.