Another MRI...

means that Mommy has a few more minutes to make a quick blog post. So, lets sum up the appointments we've had the last day or 2. On Wednesday, Gracie had a super-full day. She started at the research center with a Dxa scan and Biodex testing as part of an Endocrine study (I think we need a Biology cheat sheet for those tests) and then moved to a long appointment with Neuropsychology where they spend lots of time playing brain games and doing work to see how G is doing cognitively. After that we went back to the clinics for several appointment, beginning with Cardiology. 

So, remember I asked for extra prayers for good news in Cardiology??? Well, thank you for sending them because they worked! For the last year, Gracie has been on medication in an attempt to shrink her enlarged aortic root. The medication is working and there has been some reduction in size which is a huge relief for us. If it had continued to enlarge and stretch, she would be in danger of a rupture which would be very bad as I'm sure you can imagine. She also is showing some improvement in her leaky aortic valve that we've been watching for years.. that was a pleasant surprise as well. All in all, we are very pleased with what Dr. Braunlin had to tell us.

We moved on to Audiology and ENT. Gracie made another A+ by having some hearing improvement when listening to the low tones she was not hearing before. Yay!  ENT with Dr. Rimell was short and sweet as usual. Her ears, nose, and throat are fine.

Ophthalmology was another good appointment for Gracie. She is still farsighted, but does not require glasses. Her corneal clouding has remained stable. Her ocular pressure was high again this year, but Dr. Bothun feels that this is just a fluke with the measuring instrument since her actual visual testing went so well and is not indicative of any issues which would include increased pressure. He gave her lots of praise for how awesome she did with her testing and sent us on our way.

Coming up... Thursday and Friday appointments.