Update Wednesday Afternoon

Just talked to the cardiologist and it turns out Brielle has some narrowing in one of her shunts. This is most likely the cause of her oxygen problems. The plan is still to do the cardiac cath tomorrow and take it from there.

MRI Update

Well we went in for Brielle's MRI yesterday. Unfortunately, after she came out of sedation, her oxygen levels remained low, so we stayed at the hospital over night. The plan is to do a cardiac cath and an echo tomorrow to try to figure out what's causing this, but in the meantime Brielle seems like her happy little self. We did get the results of the MRI back, and the next step is to talk to a neurologist. I'll give an update then, because as of right now I'm not really sure what the results mean, other than there are a few things we need to keep an eye on. So right now we are home to gather a few things and we'll be heading back down there later. I'll try to give updates as I get them!

MRI

Took Brielle to a routine doctor appointment today and discovered that her head circumference has increased quite a bit since she was last measured. Back in December they were concerned about this and sent her for a head ultrasound. The head ultrasound showed that she did have increased fluid on her brain. Well the doctor had just been keeping an eye on things, hoping that the fluid would not increase further. But after today the concern is back again, and Brielle will be getting an MRI sometime this week. If the fluid is in fact increasing, Brielle will probably need to have a shunt put in place to basically help drain the fluid from her brain. So needless to say we would appreciate your prayers during this time.