Wednesday, February 23, 2011

G4 update - kind of

So, you remember this post about G4 being sick, right?

We had her follow-up appointment last week (Tuesday to be exact). The pediatrician still heard the heart murmur so he said he wants us to take her to a pediatric cardiologist. Her appointment is set for Friday afternoon. All I know is the day (Friday the 25th) and time (2:30 PM). I have no clue what doctor or where they are located. Actually that's not entirely true, I know they are in Peoria, but beyond that I have no idea. I am supposed to receive paperwork and what-not from the office before the appointment. If I don't get it tomorrow (already got today's mail) I probably won't have it by the time we leave for the appointment Friday.

I was told by the nurse at the pediatrician's office that I would need to get the films of G4's chest x-ray from the radiology department at the hospital to take with us. So, I called out yesterday to request those. They don't keep films but they keep digital copies. They burned a CD for me to take with us. I was able to look at the pictures on the netbook but I can' figure out how to copy the CD or save any of it to the computer. If I can figure it out I will probably post her x-ray pictures. I've never seen any of The Gs' x-rays before so I think it is pretty cool. I don't understand any of it but that's okay.

I don't know what they plan to do at the appointment. I have no clue what to expect or what questions I'm supposed to ask, if any. Am I supposed to have questions or concerns? How am I supposed to be feeling going to this appointment? I don't know what to tell G4 to expect. I'm not really nervous about any of this. I know people live with heart murmurs all the time. Am I supposed to be "upset" that this is going on? I hate not knowing how I'm "supposed" to feel.

1 comment:

  1. That is a hard thing to figure out. I guess just go and see what they say, then if they don't explain why she is there for sure ask.

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