Sunday, December 13, 2009

Lacey's Check up

Friday was Lacey's 4 month check up to see how things are going. We always pick the 9:45 appointment as it allows for a somewhat relaxed departure time, plus the always necessary latte/mocha stop.

The weather for the last week has been cold and dry. Even Lacey is unable to do a thing with her hair!



Dr. Scollan was out of the office so we saw Dr. Bulmer. Our student this time was Jennifer. We thought she was very professional and gave us a great tip of buying capsules and putting all of her tiny tablets in the capsule for ease of handling. We give Jennifer a A++ for this tip, it makes things easier for both the pill receiver as well as the pill giver.

After the initial exam Dr Bulmer let us know what tests they would be running and said he'd call if they found any additional tests needed to be run. So off we headed to the Inter-zone Cafe. I don't think that we were there more than 15 minutes when my phone rang. It was Jennifer saying everything was fine, but they wanted to run some blood work as they wanted to make some adjustments to Lacey's meds. I was not expecting a phone call, but the conversation wasn't as bad as it could have been.

After coffee we headed off to our favorite stops in Corvallis and enjoyed the day. At 1:30 we headed back to the school to pick up Lacey and find out the results of her tests.

The results were good and bad. No sign of arrhythmia which was excellent, but Lacey's heart had become a bit more enlarged which was bad. But a positive along those lines is because of the pacemaker, they were able to increase her heart rate up to 90.

There was a minor adjustment to her meds and a request to keep and eye on her and farewell with a see you in 3 months.

Here we are in front of the interesting artwork at the hospital.