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Kelly Goree
May 8, 2007

*holeHEARTed* Scrapbooking Digitally '08

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My sweet Turner and a story I needed to get down on paper...

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"At your routine three-year wellness check up, our pediatrician looked up at me after listening to your heartbeat. "It sounds like Turner has a murmur," he said. "Has this ever been mentioned before?" So my mommy-brain immediately kicks in and starts racing. "No," I said, "but his daddy was told he had one in high school. It was so minor though that he was even cleared for active duty in the military." And then I started to worry. Would you be ok? What would a murmur mean for you and would it keep you from doing anything you might want to do in your life?
Hearing that something might be wrong with one of your children sends a wave of panic through a parent like nothing I've ever known. We immediately scheduled an appointment with a pediatric cardiologist to check you out further. You were such a trooper at that appointment. You did everything the doctor asked of you. You thought that the ultrasound test was so cool. It was a bit surreal to me seeing your heart on a TV monitor for the first time with you OUTSIDE my belly and I struggled to stay focused on what the doctor was saying. What he found was not a murmur at all, but rather a tiny hole in a valve of your heart. At that moment, *my* heart stopped. I was frozen. But the doctor was very kind and elaborated further to ease my fears. Most likely the kind of hole you had would just disappear in a year or so, that you would outgrow it, he said. He wanted us to set another appointment for two years down the road just to confirm. Hopefully it will all turn out to be nothing but a memory. But for now, you're a little boy with a hole in his heart that I love with MY whole heart."

This happened 2 years ago (I'm just now scrapping it - yes, I'm behind ;))...we just went in for our 2 year check up and all is wonderful. His hole has closed up and everything is fine :)


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