5.23.2011

The $%&@ has hit the Fan.

Now the trigger is officially pulled. For the record, today is the last day of the second trimester.
Went for the prenatal cardio scan this morning. Half an hour for the scan and then sat down with the doc for the results.  She started with a quick anatomy refresher.... and I was starting to get really agitated that this was leading to her telling us about Geo having a defect or a hole similar to the one I have...  but, no... his heart appears tilted because the right side is slightly enlarged.  The right side - and to a smaller degree everything else - is enlarged because it is working a little harder to move more blood.  Because of.... drum roll... likely anemia.
She also had done an MCA and got a higher measurement than Dr. Awesome had gotten on Thursday.
So we quickly waddled (I waddled, Ken walked) through a maze of 3 or 4 hospitals to get over to the Baylor Clinic. Better that than a 3 minute, $15 cab ride.  What the hell, Houston Yellow Cab?
In short, today's MCA measurement is a little more elevated than Thursday's.  Ken had suggested to Dr. Awesome that there had been some studies done that showed a slightly decreased MCA when steroids were administered.  I've had two shots of the stuff.
Steroids + elevated MCA + heart issue  + elevated antibody titer = Go time.
&%$*.
So, tomorrow at 5:30 AM, we're checking in for what is likely to be the first of a series of transfusions for Geo.  There is about a 3% chance of delivering tomorrow.  The doc pointed out that it was also a 97% chance of things going fine.  I pointed out that he was speaking to someone who has a blood type shared by significantly less that 1% population and of those with that type, the first ever in his experience to need a transfusion. Snark snark snarkity snark.
Dr. Awesome was able to highly recommend someone in NYC to continue this course of treatment, so it looks like a move is in the near future as well.  Thankfully, not as drastic as Houston, but still...

1 comment:

Robin Snyder Dailey said...

Oh Cindy, I'm just seeing this now. Thinking healthy thoughts for you and Geo.