It's Go Time

At this morning's echo the perinatologist saw more runs of vt and they would continue for a few seconds or longer. This was more than we had seen anytime recently and concerning enough for the dr to call the on-call cardiologist to come take a look. This along with the measurements estimating BGK's size to be 6lb 1oz convinced the doctors that rather than waiting another week we should go ahead and have her. The risk of anything happening to her inside Amanda now appeared to outweigh the benefit that one more week may gain us. The doctors started putting everything in motion to schedule the Monday 6/14 birth. We were excited to find out that both the OB and Pediatric cardiologist scheduled for Monday were the two that we most want to handle the procedure. We are scheduled for a 9:00 am delivery and BGK will immediately be taken to the NICU here at Northside and once stabilized will be transported over to the Egleston CICU. I will go with BGK while Amanda stays at Northside recovering from the C-section. I have found that many people assume Egleston is the Childrens Healthcare unit here next to Northside but that location is actually Scottish Rite and Egleston is over at Emory.

We are definitely very excited yet also nervous. We are looking forward to moving on to the next step and getting a precise diagnosis on her condition and I am selfishly very excited to get Amanda back to our family.

I'll try to update this blog on BGK's birthday with details.

- Mark