cardi update

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Norah went to the cardi Tuesday (instead of Wednesday) and most things look the same - which is good.

There appears to be some new tissue floating around her atrial septum which could indicate that it's gong to start closing on it's own. This is what we hoped to see eventually.

There is no tissue floating around her ventricular wall. Her VSD is very large and we really want to see that starting to close. If her valves aren't looking great and we need to do something, her VSD is going to decide if it's an angio procedure or open heart surgery.

Speaking of valves...
Her pulmonary valve is looking the same. Good b/c it hasn't gotten worse and the narrowing & domed leaflets are protecting her from congestive heart failure, but bad b/c it isn't improving. It'd most likely worsen though, so I'll take the "no change".
Now her mitral valve is showing signs of narrowing. Hopefully since the left side of her heart has always been a little on the smaller side, this won't be a problem, but we need to watch it more closely now.

As of today, we've got a plan in place with Children's Boston to evaluate her heart around 6 months (possibly as early as 4 though) with a surgeon and decide if she *needs* surgery or we can give her VSD more time to close itself.

So yeah, we're back to possibly having open heart surgery when she's 6 months old.