Justin's checkup

Thank you so much for praying for Justin!

Last friday we drove to Kelowna for another checkup and got some very good news. Justin's heart seems to be recovering very well and he's also growing and gaining the apropriate weight for his age.

A new cardiologist saw him this time and he mentioned to us that he hadn't seen Justin's previous echos but that judging from this last one his heart function is not so bad. We have been increasing the dose on his medication every week as the smaller doses weren't bringing his heart rate down as low as he needed (this was also monitored by a pediatrician weekly) but the cardiologist told us that his heart has recovered so much that he may not need such a large quantity of medication. Of course this was wonderful news for us!

We will be keeping him on this same amount of meds for 3 months (but we don't have to increase them, praise the Lord!) just to make sure he doesn't take a turn for the worse. In September he'll be seeing the cardiologists again and we might be able to begin weaning him off the meds altogether. Please keep that in your prayers!

Because Justin's heart has recovered a bit, they were able to see that some of the muscle is malformed and they believe he was born with this problem. It's impossible to tell how much this will affect the overall function of his heart but it doesn't seem to be a very serious problem.

My beautiful, big-hearted baby boy!

New rain boots! Yay!

Hiding in the closet and then popping out is his favorite new game.