Ella's follow-up appointment.

This is a bit of old news now, but I'm just now getting around to blogging it. Back on Nov 5th, Ella had her post-op follow-up at Hopkins. They performed a fairly detailed check-up of her heart, and the placement of the device using both echo- and electro-cardiograms. The Amplatzer duct occluder is in-place, it's not moving, and it's not obstructing normal blood flow anywhere. To quote the cardiologist that did the procedure "It's hers now, she can keep it."

At this point, we've been given some very minor restrictions (i.e.: no dental work for 4-5 months due to infection risks.) and we're scheduled to follow-up with our local cardiologist in a year.

In general Ella has been doing really well. The day after the procedure (Thursday) she was still pretty sleepy, but she went back to school the day after that (Friday), and had a more-or-less normal day. She had some minor tenderness for a bit over a week at her hip where they inserted the catheters, but this went really well.