Cardiologist visit...

Ok, I'm actually backfilling news from last Friday, July 25th.

Ella went and saw her cardiologist to check on her PDA with an echocardiogram. This is going reasonably well, but the opening is now larger than expected. It's not causing her any harm, but they're now expecting they will eventually have to close it (via a catheter type procedure). However since it is still fairly small and not causing her any problems, they're going to wait and check on it again when she turns 3.

The cardiologist also told us that they'd be able to see any signs of trouble on the echo long before we'd see any physical symptoms. Apparently the first sign is enlargement of the left ventricle of the heart, which Ella isn't showing in the echo. They also did an EKG and they did not note any irregularities in heart rhythm (another sign), and we've not observed her being unusually short of breath (the first sign we'd be able to see).