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Kahlia had her follow up appt. with her Cardiologist on Friday - just over 2 weeks since her Cardiac Cath. She seems to be doing really well - though her oxygen sats are back down in the high 70's - they were 78 on Friday. She said "Uh-Oh" for the first time at the doctor's office when she pushed a book off the table. She's learning!! :-) The plan is - Dr. Carlson would like to put off her surgery closer to the 6 month time because they really want to see her get stronger. It's not the actual surgery she's worried about, it's the recovery afterward - particularly the first 48 hours when her body has to be working so very hard to accomodate a blood flow level she has never seen. A lot of things can go wrong, and they want her to be in the best health she can possibly be in with out waiting too long to make matters even worse. She's a trooper, and doing great. We need to schedule an appt. with Dr. McKelvey (her Pediatrician) every other week to see what her oxygen sats are, and if they start dropping, then they may do another Cardiac Cath in the interim to give her another "boost" before the big surgery. We're just taking one step at a time. She gets evaluated with ESD the end of this month -so we will then start with Physical, Occupational, and speech therapies - most likely.
After her appointment, we spent the rest of the weekend up there as well. Scott and took the three older kids to the zoo for a fun family day. My mom had some alone Kahlia time so we wouldn't have to rush back for her nap. They had a nice time - and so did we! :-) On Sunday, Scott, Kahlia, and I headed for home via visiting an old friend that was in town (Jennifer Swanborough!) and left Brendon, Makenna, and David at my parents so my sister could come pick them up and take them to her house for the week to spend with their cousins Wade and Aspen. They were SO excited to go - hope they have lots of fun at Twin Rocks Friends Camp this week! I'm hoping to get lots of scrapbooking done -we'll see how much Kahlia lets me get done. Thursday night I drive up to the camp to bring the kids home friday morning for a swim meet starting Friday afternoon - should be a fun week for all!