Easton's heart cath and echo went pretty well. It was a reminder to us that we will never be "out of the woods" with his heart. Here I was so happy he didn't have to have stents, balloons, or coils put in, thinking those were the big things. I felt punched in the stomach when the first thing they told us started with, "the only thing we didn't know about his heart is..." They discovered he has a narrowed pulmonary artery. Thanks fully this can be fixed during the Glenn. His right ventricle is showing left function, which is scary. At some point it will cause him to be in heart failure, but we aren't at the point yet. Function basically means the squeeze. It isn't squeezing as efficiently as one would like, but it is common with HLHS. Sadly this is not something that can be fixed. He has a collateral vein trying to form to "fix" his heart, something it tries to do cause it knows something isn't right. They will watch it and if it forms it will have to be coiled off. Also, his left lung has too much blood, which means it isn't pumping as much to the gut probably. They don't know if this will be fixed or not with the Glenn, though he will get more blood flow with the procedure. The echo went well, but one of his numbers was high and with that number and the decreased function, they decided to put him on blood pressure medicine. So, not horrible news, but more disappointing than we expected it to be, or at least hoped it would be. He wasn't happy when he woke up, but settled down fairly well. He had a quiet cry due to being incubated. He had to lay flat for 6 hours and they took his bandages off 24 hours later.
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