<<<< Just look at the puppy fat ;-)
Yesterday Johnny was playing with you on the sofa and he reckons you have a tooth... you were goin mad with yer gums and he had a little feel and said he thought he felt something. So this morning i sat with you and had a good feel around yer gums, consulted with Maggie and it is confirmed you hav got yer 1st Tooth, hurrah :-) I felt your bottom gum and i could feel the tiniest sharp edge, so i reckon it's just barely cut through.
Also had our 1st appointment with your cardiac surgeon Dr Lars Nolke in the blackrock clinic, Lars was so happy with your progress and weight gain. He was positive that you were working well towards your surgery in March and your healthy weight gain would be favourable. We queryed your kidney repair surgery and he was confident that you would be strong enough.
We talked about your future as a heart baby/child and your ability to be a 'normal ' child and lead as normal as possible life. We had been under the impression that you would not play many sports and your activites as a child would be limited but Lars said that once you are over the first few repair heart surgeries you would go on to do much activites as any other child. Your dad was so pleased to hear this, he so wants to see you out playing football with your cousin's Finn & Kyle and all the 'boys' in the years ahead, we were so pleased with Dr Nolkes' confidence in your future prognosis!
He said that the surgery in March would be very complex and it would be the first in a line of heart surgeries for you. The first being to join the MAPCA's (extra arteries) up to the main pulmonary arteries and wait for them to grow, also in the first surgery they would hope to put in an artifical pulmonary valve (coz urs is missing lil man). The second surgery once you have time to recover would be to close the ASD & VSD (holes) or maybe partial closure depending on how well you do. Then as you grow the artifical valve would have to be replaced as necessary maybe @ 4-5yrs old, in your early teens and late teans/early adulthood you could have a valve inserted that would grow with & hopefully last a lifetime!
A great day all round ;-)
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