Michael and his dad catching a nap.


Michael, with his Nannie, enjoying his adoring Moog fans.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Hi Everyone.
A quick update from yesterday's appointment.

Michael had an echocardiogram done and the team determined that he'll need additional testing. They did say that there is some narrowing of his arteries, but nothing alarming. They will do an MRI within the next two weeks to determine how soon this will need to be corrected. Of course, the doctors would like to wait as long as possible and are hoping this can hold off until Michael's next surgery (in about a year). Either way, they will be closely monitoring the narrowing as well as the shifting of his lungs.

Michael was a trooper at the cardiologist visit, which lasted more than four hours. Donning his green rugby shirt, Michael celebrated his first Saint Patrick's Day, checking out all of the crazy revelers strolling through New York last night. He also got a belated "Happy Birthday" song to ring in his 10 month birthday.

Thanks for your thoughts, prayers, and support. We'll keep you posted.

hi everyone sorry I did not update yesterday. Mick is doing well. We are going to the hospital today for them to do an EKG and Echo. They want to run more test before they have to do a MRI. We are going at 10 am and expect to be there all day.

I will post when we get back, we will have a much better idea what is going on after today's visit.


Thank you all for prayers and well wishes

Lots of Love

Meg

Sorry for the delay with updates. Meg was away for business in Arizona and things have been busy!

Michael is doing well. Meg and Thomas took him to the pediatrician yesterday, thinking that the poor little guy may have an ear infection. It turns out that he has a viral infection, which was causing a fever, which resulted in low saturation levels (amount of oxygen in his blood). The pediatrician sent them to the hospital, where they did a chest x-ray and blood work. The blood work came back okay but the chest x-ray revealed some concern that Michael's left lung may have been pushed. So far, the cardiologist is speculating that it could have occurred during the last surgery. They are going to do an MRI tomorrow (hopefully). The medical team will monitor this closely since, if this is the case, it is very rare. However, as Michael's temperature returned to normal so did his saturation levels, leaving his doctors and parents relieved.

Michael's been hanging low at home and is back to being his hilarious self. When not cracking up, he's climbing over people and toys to find the clicker or seek out the cell phone's hiding spot.

We'll keep you posted with updates.

Here's are some pictures of the Mickster in some new sunglasses his dad bought him and just hanging out at home. [We're ignoring the fact that they say Yankees on them.]

Sending lots of love to everyone!