Gracie’s Heart

Ok – so my niece Gracie (second one – sister of exceptionally cute but high speed terror Katie) has something called a Ventricular Septal Defect . In short, it means a hole inside your heart, that happens to about 1 out of 100 babies. I can’t tell you how much it sucks that that 1 is my sister’s.

So the idea is that we would wait and see if it maybe healed itself, which they sometimes do. If so, then all is well, and onward we go. If not (and it looks now like this might be the case), she needs surgery to repair it. It’s pretty common (as the number of these cases would bear out), but still – you just don’t want to operate on an infant.

So we have to wait two weeks to find out if surgery is the way to go. Will advise.