In the hospital

I decided to start posting to the blog again to keep everyone updated. We brought Allison to the ER yesterday. She had been having bouts of nausea & vomiting along with a myriad of other symptoms, but it was the puffiness or water retention that prompted our pediatrician to send us in. Upon arrival her blood oxygen level was only 81 - not good.

So she was admitted yesterday afternoon and so far they've done an echocardiogram, a chest x-ray, and an abdominal ultrasound. Allison's cardiologist feels that it is her heart that is causing all of these symptoms, that her heart is not pumping as efficiently as it should due to her leaky valves. The other doctors here are still trying to rule out other causes for some of her puzzling symptoms. They did start her on some meds that will help her heart pump more efficiently, so we're just going to see how she does on those.

She looks better today. I think the extra oxygen is doing her good even if she hates wearing the nasal canula. Right now we're waiting for the doctors to do their rounds to see what the next step is.