Another ENT Update

Today Abby had a CTA scan (CT angiogram). This was done to look for a vascular ring or some other sort of vascular anomoly that would be causing her bronchomalacia. This required general anesthesia again. Luckily, we were able to stay with her this time until she was completely asleep. That was very nice. When she woke up, I fed her, then she took another 6 oz of bottle. I'm guessing that she had close to 12 oz of milk total. This wasn't a good idea, because about half an hour later, it all came back up in the hospital cafeteria. And all over Leonard! They were both covered. We had a change of clothes for Abby, but Leonard's were back at the hotel, so he had to stay in them until after the ENT appointment.

We don't have the final report yet, but the preliminary report shows that all her vascular structures are normal. This means that her bronchomalacia is caused by floppy cartilage and won't require surgery! The doctors feel that she should grow out of this by the time she is two. This is great news. She will still require chest x-rays whenever she gets a cold for as long as her breathing remains raspy and wheezy.

We are hoping that this will be our last visit to Children's until her swallow study in May and the cardiologist in July.

Since her appointment was on a Friday, we decided to spend the weekend in Little Rock and go to the zoo on Saturday. Abby didn't seem too excited about it. She liked the larger animals that were moving and did a lot of people watching. It was free admission weekend, so it was absolutely packed! It took us an hour and a half to get out of the parking lot. Madness! I'm posting pictures on the shutterfly site right now.