Problems!

Well 3 days ago i took Hannah to the doctors as she had been doing this strange cough that was worrying me and Steve and after keeping us up all night on Sunday night i decided enough was enough and took her to the doctors.


He gave her a thorough check-up decided she may have a chest infection or similar and asked if anyone had ever investigated this heart murmur.... "What heart murmur?!"

This was the first we knew of any heart murmur!
He sent me to Dewsbury hospital with Hannah with strict instructions to keep mentioning the heart murmur to ensure it was checked out properly. When we arrived at the hospital they began treating Hannah for suspected Broncilitus with inhallers and kept us in for observations but on day three without warning we were taken to an appointment with specialist Dr Brown to perform an ultrasound on her heart to find out if there was indeed a problem.

It was horrible and seemed to take forever, i could see her little heart chambers pumping away on the screen and was trying to get her to lay as still as possible and the 2 female docotrs were jibbering to each other in medical lingo, she then asked me to dress Hannah and sit down.

Then she broke the bad news, that Hannah has a medium to large hole in her lower two ventricles which had a 50/50 chance of requiring open heart surgery to repair ... You could have run me over with a train and i probably wouldnt have felt anything i was so shocked and upset, this is the kind of thing you read about that happens to other peoples babies...

So she prescribed Hannah with high calorie prescription milk and diuretics to make her wee to prevent her maintaining any extra fluids that would make her heart work overtime and gave us 4 weeks to try feeding her up to see if the hole closed any with weight gain...