Looking good! Follow Up visit #1

We went to Children's Hospital for a follow up visit with the doctor's. Rainey had an X-ray, stitches out, and EKG. They said she looked good, her resting pulse rate is 75 (still a little high for her but normal after a surgery like this), but they want to keep an eye on her T-waves from the EKG. Nothing to be too concerned about . . . just something they are monitoring. She will have another followup visit on January 28 along with an exercise test before she's allowed to return to sports. She is to walk daily. She can go back to school when she is ready but to avoid any lifting of anything over 5 lbs and getting hit in the chest. It was a good meeting! As active (and ornery) as Rainey is, some of this will be hard for her to follow! All of her friends have offered to get out of class early to carry her backpack! :-)

We also got to re-visit the CICU to drop off thank you cards and visit with the nurses. It was a little hard to go back to that area of the hospital. Rainey has been working on a volunteer project to give back to the hospital that helped her. . . volunteering as a greeter or maybe something with stuffed animals.

Thanks again for your support! Stop by and visit Rainey when you get a chance!