Dr. King

We took Trigger to see Dr. King (the pediatric cardiologist) on Wednesday. They did another chest xray and EKG when we first arrived. Dr. King did hear the heart murmur and told us that it was PPS (peripheral pulmonary stenosis), which is one of five normal heart murmurs that many children have.
Here is a link describing it:www.childheartassociates.com/PatientInfo/Murmurs_PPS.htm
Actually, Dr. King said that all babies are born with heart murmurs (100%-no exception).
It's just that most go away by 3 to 6 months.
They expect Trigger's to go away but they will do an echocardiogram on Dec. 10 to get a picture of his heart on ultrasound.
Then we will go back in February.
And he will go back at 2 years old to have another echocardiogram done.
But Dr. King said that at the current time, the PPS poses no health risks to Trigger.
We are VERY thankful that everything turned out ok. Matt and I talked to a lady in the waiting room. Her grandchild had to have 2 heart surgeries after he was born and will have another at 2 years old. And, just today, I talked to our termite guy and he said that his granddaughter was born with two holes in her heart and had to have surgery, feeding tube, and was hospitalized for 3 months. SO...it seems as though there are many people out there dealing with medical issues. We are very thankful that ours have been minor bumps in the road!!
By the way, I am getting to post in the middle of the day because we are out of school today. There has been a horrible stomach virus spreading quickly around school so the administration decided to let us have a day to get well and stop spreading the germs. I made sure I washed my hands a thousand times a day and sprayed lysol on everything! I am enjoying the day off!!!