On Thursday we went back to the doctor for my 22wk checkup and for an echo for baby #2. It was about an hour long and it was so amazing to see how much baby has changed in just 2wks! It was incredible! We finished up and our Dr came in to talk to us.
It's never a good sign when the doctor says, did she tell you what she found? I was like, um no...? Here because baby was a wild child not lifting his/her head and keeping the arm across the chest, they couldn't get a real good view of the crossing of the aorta and pulmonary arteries. Well, this time, baby was a little sleepy and praise God, had the chin lifted just so that they could get some amazing pictures of the baby's "plumbing" of the heart.
Instead of Tetralogy of Fallot, our baby has Transposition of Great Vessels with a Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD). Praise, praise God that they found this. It's a little more serious diagnosis that before. The best way to describe it is the plumbing that's coming out of the baby's heart is backwards and doing the wrong job. Also, if baby was holding out okay- we may have been able to hold and keep baby for awhile with the previous diagnosis and maybe ever taken baby home then come back for the surgery. The new one, Transposition, once the cord is cut, the baby will be taken to the NICU to await open heart surgery.
I didn't do so well with the news. It was almost like I needed to grieve again, if that makes sense. I was in a good spot of understanding Tetralogy and felt like I had a little bit of a grip on it and then it all changed. I was really stressed and what was worse was that my wild woman picked right up on it. The following two nights she woke up crying for me and even when I went in to sleep with her, she would wake up cry for me and say "hold Momma, hold Momma". I cried even more then :(. She's doing much better and I am too. God is so good and I'm so thankful he remembers I'm a sinful human with alot to learn.
So many things have changed, been up in the air, and happend in the last few days. I will hopefully be flying out this weekend and will have my first appointment next week. At first they weren't going to put Ben on the orders and just allow him enough time to take us there and then come back to work until our PCS orders come in. It was awful. Another praise that God worked it out. A few other things transpired and I'll share those later.
We ask for your continued prayers and will keep you updated! Love you all so very much!
Here's some info on the Transposition of Great Vessels :
From www.childrenshospital.org:
With these arteries reversed, oxygen-poor (blue) blood returns to the right atrium from the body, passes into the right ventricle, then goes into the aorta and back to the body. And oxygen-rich (red) blood returns to the left atrium from the lungs and passes into the left ventricle, which pumps it back to the lungs—the opposite of the way blood normally circulates. The oxygen-poor (blue) blood cannot meet the body’s demands, and this situation cannot support life.
