Malachi had appointments today to look at how his heart is developing now that he is three weeks old. The updates are: First, today's x-ray compared to the x-ray from the day he was born indicates that the right side of the heart has enlarged. Second, the echocardiogram shows that the blood pressure between his heart and lungs has also increased. Third, there continues to be leakage in the mitral valve.
He will be back in on Wednesday, March 26th to run through the same exams to see if things are stable, better, or getting worse. If they are worse, he would likely be admitted to the cardiac cath lab at the hospital, anesthetized, and given medication intravenously that could help relax the lungs hopefully causing the blood pressure to go down.
While things were looking bad before birth then great immediately after birth this has been discouraging to hear. The bright side is that Malachi is confusing multiple cardiologists that are looking into this being that he displays no outside symptoms. He has gained weight (from 5 lbs. 12 oz. to 7 lbs. 4 oz.), he eats a lot, he breaths normally, and his color is great.
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I will be praying for Malachi and you two. Hugs.
He just has a bigger heart than most people. Just more love to go around. As for his lungs he is going to be a singer like his mom. I can't come up with anything cute for the blood pressure stuff.
Now that I have diagnosed Malachi for you please just put the payment for services in the mail.
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