Clean Bill of Health

Cameron had his cardiologist appointment today. Just as I expected he has a perfect little heart. My mom took off work to go with me since Steve had to take off work to take Cooper to speech. The nurse started off with an EKG and my little guy was quite the ham. Smiling and laughing at her. Afterwards we met with the doctor. He was great, you could totally tell he likes kids. I researched his profile before the appointment, he is in his 40's and has 5 kids of his own. Makes me feel better knowing he can relate to us in way. He started off by listening to his heart then tried to get his heartbeat through his leg. Boy that made Cameron mad!!!! He is not near as fussy as he once was but if you upset him there is no calming down. He screamed throughout the entire ultrasound. The doctor was so calm and patient. After that was all done we got him dressed and went to talk to the doctor in his office. He has what is called a a patent foramen ovale (PFO). The best I can explain this- there is a small opening in a baby's heart between the left and right atria while in the womb. In normal cases this will close within a few days after birth. In about 1 out of 3 or 4 people it never closes. In a healthy infant there are no risks in it not closing. Most of the time it will close between 1 and 3 years. He has never seen a case where the hole was as small as Cameron's that didn't close by the age of one. We will go back in a year to check it out, IF it doesn't close we will keep going back until it does, or the extremely rare case it never does, a procedure will be done at 18 to correct it. The only reason why they even bother then is there is a slight risk for a certain strokes later in life so it's corrected. There are no restrictions with this, he can play all sport, except scuba dive more than 60 feet. I have a perfectly healthy baby!!!!