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We just got back from the hospital and Angie’s follow-up appointment.\u00a0 I dropped her off and she went in to get her labs drawn and chest x-ray.\u00a0 After that, we went upstairs to see the doctor.\u00a0 They started with vitals and an EKG.\u00a0 The EKG was a little hard to read because Angie’s heart rate was a little high, so the doctor wanted Angie to go have her pacemaker interrogated at the children’s hospital across the street.\u00a0 They showed us the x-ray and her lungs look much better.\u00a0 The fluid is nearly all gone, thanks to the increased diuretic Angie has been on.\u00a0 Because the image looked so good, they decided to dial down her dosage, which we’re grateful for.\u00a0 Before we left, Dr. Lui talked to us about a new drug he’d like to put Angie on.\u00a0 It is a vasodialator that should help with her pulmonary pressure.\u00a0 That will (hopefully) decrease the fluid build-up and a nice side effect is increased oxygen saturation levels.\u00a0 There are risks, as with any medication, so we went over those.\u00a0 He’s very hopeful that this drug will really help Angie get back to normal.<\/p>\n

\"20131209_153149\"<\/a>After our chat, we walked over to Lucile Packard’s and did the interrogation.\u00a0 Being a children’s hospital, the pacemaker interrogator has a little turtle covering.\u00a0 It’s very cute.\u00a0 We were thrilled to find out that Angie is not in arrhythmia!\u00a0 Hooray!\u00a0 She did have an episode of arrhythmia a few days ago, but it lasted only 11 seconds, so it didn’t worry them too much.\u00a0 If it keeps recurring, I’m sure it will worry them, but for today, she’s in great shape.\u00a0 With that great news, they bid us goodbye and let us go to fight commuter traffic on our way home.<\/p>\n

We are also very<\/em> excited to hear that my sister-in-law, Kelly, is cancer-free!\u00a0 She went in for surgery last week and today we learned that the doctors found no trace of cancer in her body.\u00a0 We’re so happy for you, Kelly!<\/p>\n

We were so excited about the news of the day that we decided to celebrate by going to Angie’s favorite restaurant in Livermore, which is right of the freeway on the way home.\u00a0 Thank you all for your love, support, prayers, good thoughts, words of encouragement, and everything you’ve done to help us over the last few months.\u00a0 We couldn’t have gotten through without you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We just got back from the hospital and Angie’s follow-up appointment.\u00a0 I dropped her off and she went in to get her labs drawn and chest x-ray.\u00a0 After that, we went upstairs to see the doctor.\u00a0 They started with vitals and an EKG.\u00a0 The EKG was a little hard to read because Angie’s heart rate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[21,8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-kC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}