Possibly the last post about heart surgery, eh? Fini!

Not the last blog post, silly! Just the last one about heart surgery.

Ok. So Jacob had his follow-up with the cardiologist this week and I'll cut to the chase - it went great! Jacob's Dad was large and in charge for the myriad of testing and he reports that the staff still isn't sure where everything is in their lovely new space (he even had to explain to a nurse where radiology was)... but he and Jacob managed the morning pretty handily anyway.

The cardiologist reports that Jacobs heart looked great on the echo, all the swelling (from surgery and working too hard prior to surgery) is gone and it's back to normal size. Lungs? His lungs were "clear as a bell"!! No fluid around his heart and none detected in/around his lungs. All good. Good. Good.

His sutures that were still on the drain tube holes were taken out and now those are healing nicely. And his chest scar is almost completely healed. It's really amazing.

Chylothorax, you ask? So since there was no fluid around his lungs, we can stop with the crazy yucky formula and go back to our old faithful formula....yay! ...although unfortunately we have to do a transition formula for two weeks first... Boo! (But he is tolerating the transition formula much better so that's ok. We'll get there.)

That's the follow up scoop. No cardiologist until August! Can you believe? And then after that we go to only yearly check ups. Wow!

Far be it for me to point out that it's not football season. But I think cute overrides sport season appropriateness, no? (and a shout out to our friends C & CC who sent this to Jacob! Cuuuute!)

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BTW. If you thought Jacob's parents didn't have enough going on now that his surgery is over... Oh don't you worry....