This past Friday, September 11, 2015 was Evan’s 1 year “Fontaniversary.” It sounds silly, I know. It was one year ago that Evan had the last open heart surgery that he needed to “correct” his heart. It has been a quiet and uneventful year…thankfully!
Today we had followup appointments in Kalamazoo and at Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor to check his progress. I’m excited to report that Evan’s heart is doing GREAT! Dr. Fountain-Dommer reviewed his echocardiogram and was all smiles. There’s ZERO leaking around the valves, no regurgitation, and his function (how well his heart squeezes) looks great. She doesn’t need to see us for a year! The news was much the same at U of M. His pacemaker is doing what it should be and they don’t need to see us back for 15-18 months.
Next up on the agenda is getting him to eat 250 more calories per day so that we can discontinue the overnight tube feedings. Six months of that and we can remove the feeding tube for good! OK, maybe I’m not THAT excited about removing it. You get used to it and it’s great to have as a backup when he’s sick. I could do without rushing to daycare on the occasions where it “pops out” though.
Hmmm… what else? O M G….. I think it’s safe to say that he is now POTTY TRAINED. We haven’t had an accident in at least a couple weeks including a 7 hour drive to the upper peninsula and back.
Below are some pictures from the Labor Day weekend and the appointment today.
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