Thursday morning we took Grace Anne to school and then headed to sweet home Alabama! Daniel had his annual appointment with his cardiologist in Birmingham.
Drew was ready to go and enjoyed the road trip!
Daniel received a good report from the doctor. His heart has not changed much over the past 5 years, it has not gotten better, but it has not gotten any worse and that is a GOD thing:-).
We have known since his 1st heart surgery in 1994 that he would have to have a 2nd surgery.
The 1st surgery they repaired his aorta valve. The surgeon said back in 1994 that he most likely would have a 2nd surgery in about 5 years which would be replacing the valve with a mechanical valve. Here we are in 2009, 15 years later, and God has allowed his heart to maintain and stay fairly healthy!!!! Praise God!!!!
After talking to the cardiologist on Thursday, he said that Daniel is not in urgent need to have surgery right now but we should be looking for a convenient time in the next couple of years to have the valve replaced. He said that we don't want to wait until Daniel gets older and his heart starts getting weak and he has to have surgery. He told Daniel he would see him in another year and we will talk more.
So, we have some things to research and decide. I do ask you to please keep us in prayer for the following things.......
-Guidance and wisdom as we consider looking for a surgeon/cardiologist that is closer to our home in SC. We love his doctor in AL, but we would like for him to have surgery closer to home and not have to drive 6 1/2 hours if he needs to see the doctor.
-Healing! We know that God can and will heal Daniel if it is according to His will. We are so thankful for the healing thus far, and we give Him all the honor and glory!!!!! We serve an awesome God!
So in all, we had a pretty good visit!
We left B'ham and got back on the road again!
We drove about an hour and then we got an hotel room. Then we got up on Friday and got back to SC just in time for Grace Anne to get out of school! She had a blast spending the night with her friend Hannah! We are so glad to be back home!
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