Sedated Echo Results!

Today we had Khloei's sedated echo. What a crazy morning! We arrived at Children's Hospital at 7:30 am and by 9:00 they gave her the sedation medication. It took her about 20 mins to fall completely asleep. It was very interesting to watch the echo, though it was hard to follow.
We found out that Khloei's VSD, and ASD was completely repaired in China, even though her documents said ASD complete repair and VSD partial repair. So that is wonderful. Her referral also indicated a thick mitral value, which the echo revealed was actually an extra flap growing off the mitral valve. The mitral value is working well, so the cardiologist is just going to watch it. the tricuspid valve was said to have regurgitation at a level 2, but the echo revealed a level 1 regurgitation. So that was great news. The echo did reveal 2 other heart conditions that was not in her referral. They are minor and only to to be watched for any changes. She has a silent PDA and trival aortic insufficiency. If there are any changes all of these can be fixed in out patient surgery. So we are thrilled. The cardiologist said he wants to see Khloei in 1 yr and gave me a list of things to watch for with the mitral valve, PDA and aortic valve. She has no restrictions on her activities, and the pulmonary hypertension is gone. Which is good because that can lead to lung transplant. All is well and she is home sleeping off the rest of the meds they used for sedation. God is Good! We are so thankful that everything came back so well. The cardiologist told us she could have to have open heart surgery again according to China's notes, but after the echo, he gave her thumbs up. Thank you for your prayers, and please pray for my sisters daughter. she adopted her in Nov of 2009 from Fujian Prov. and she has open heart surgery on April 27th. She is only 6months older than Khloei. Khloei and Lynden ( my niece) are very close and love to play together. We are also neighbors so the girls share a lot in common. Both from the Fujian Prov. Both will have had heart surgery. I will try and post some pictures of the girls together.

I uploaded more Easter pictures on our shutterfky. http://oursweetkhloeielizabeth.shutterfly.com/ Khloei is so sweet. Well things are going well Khloei has a sedated Echo on April 21st. The cardiologist feels that all is good, but has a few tiny concerns. So please keep Khloei in your prayers. She has been sick on and off. Seems that she has had ecoli in her urine for awhile. So she is on very strong meds. The pharmacies had to order it in that's how strong it is and she has to have an ultra sound of her kidneys. So that is coming up. Please pray that this new medicine clears up her ecoli, or the next step is hospital with IV. The Dr said that this form of ecoli can be from dirty water, and she had very strong pee when we got her. And that is a sign. So they are not sure how long that the ecoli has been in her system. So please keep khloei in your prayers.

Our Photo Site!

Please look at the photos we uploaded on shutterfly. When I get more time I will put more photos and videos from China. Just click this link.

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Home!

Well we are home. It has been crazy. We had our family photos done yesterday. The photographer cropped this picture for us. She looks so sweet. It is hard to believe that this is my sweet little girl. I am still walking around in tears that she is ours. It still amazes me that God has brought such a perfect match to our family. Though some adjusting is hard. My son who is 9yrs old has been the baby for so long, and of course Khloei is still adjusting so much. But it is going better than I thought. Nights are rough, but we are have not found a schedule that works for her and all the kids sports. Nap falls at the time I get my step daughter from school, so then she is cranky when I have to wake her and does not make for a good evening. No nap means she wants to go to bed at 7pm, and my son has soccer. Up earlier is out. Because she whines from about 4am till 7am then falls back to sleep. So I need sleep. Oh well I know as soon as we get a good schedule it will be much easier. Well I will be posting more pics soon. I have so many cute ones. Of course, because she is so beautiful!