It feels as if time has been going by kind of slowly for us lately. When Owen turned 1, we found out at his well-baby check up that he had a slow resting heart rate. "Probably nothing to worry about" our pediatrician said but then made an appointment for us with a cardiologist anyway. Long story short (and 6 months later) we're still waiting to find out what this means for Owen. At this point we know he has a partial atrioventricular block. The "block" referring to the electrical system in his heart and not blood flow. To correct this, Owen will need a pacemaker. We are currently waiting for some blood tests to come back and once they do, Owen will likely go straight into surgery. Recovery is a week which includes two nights in the hospital. We're fully expecting everything to be fine...they perform surgeries like this weekly at Children's Mercy and Owen is so young that he probably won't even remember it. He will go through about a half-dozen of these surgeries throughout his life as he grows and his pacemaker needs to be replaced.
In the photo above, Owen is wearing a Holter monitor. Apparently 16-month olds love wires so this was particularly fun to try to keep on him for 24 hours.
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