Ok... so I haven't been on here for awhile but for a good reason! I had to go to the hospital again for two nights and just got out today.... it was not fun to be away from my new baby. When I went to the emergency room the first time they told me it was pneumonia but it was not getting better and as of Monday I had not slept for two nights. I had this weird bubbly gargling sound everytime I would breathe and if I tried to go to sleep my body would wake me up because I couldn't breathe... we were worried that this was something more serious than pneumonia. I went to the emergency room again Monday morning and they treated me like a little lab rat. I am glad they did though because they found fluid in my lungs and my heart was enlarged making it hard to pump blood and also hard to breathe with the fluid in my lungs. They ruled out alot of stuff but said that I most likely got a mild case of something called Peripartum Cardiomyopathy. If you google it or know what it is, it is actually pretty scary. I have to follow a strict low sodium diet now and weigh myself everyday to check for water retention. So keep me in your prayers because there is a chance it can return and anything to do with any level of heart failure is nothing to mess with.
Austin is healthy and eating like crazy and happy to have him mommy home! I will post more pictures when I have had a chance to be home and actually take some!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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Gosh girl...I'm so sorry. All I know about cardiomyopathy I learned from Grey's Anatomy so I can assume it is serious! We are definitely praying for you and little Austin.
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