First, the good news! Isaac’s heart is doing very well. The cardiologist has taken him off his medication and believes he has outgrown his heart problem! Yay! We need to watch him for the next couple months until he has another Holter test done to see how he tolerates being off the medication. After his appointment we took him up to the corridors of the NICU where he stayed for 6 days when he was 2 weeks old.  We took a picture of him standing at the wall of handprints of NICU graduates. He looked so small, yet he is so big compared to when he was there the last time.

Second, the bad news. After this appointment, I noticed he wasn’t feeling right. He had not been himself for the last couple days and I attributed it to teething, but thought there were enough symptoms to get him checked out by his pediatrician. I called and was able to get him right in for an appointment. So we ran back home. (For all that Isaac has been through, the office staff always give him a room of his own to wait in right away and we don’t have to wait with all the sick kids in the waiting room. It is great.) Isaac has an ear infection. I am not sure how long he has had it, I suspect that it has been brewing for a couple weeks. We had him checked out at the local urgent care Thanksgiving weekend and they didn’t find anything. I think the symptoms were there, but clinically unnoticeable. Poor baby. It won’t be long for him to be feeling like himself again, I am sure.

It is hard to believe it was just a year ago that we almost lost Isaac. He is a thriving little boy with a sweet spirit.