A Visit to the Cardiologist

Yesterday Evie had her monthly checkup with her cardiologist. Francis also had to see his own doctor, who works in the same building, so he came along for the visit. We brought the camera so we could show all of you what these visits are like.

First, Nurse Julie take Evie's vital stats: her blood pressure and pulse-ox. You can see the dark green cuff on her right leg which measures her blood pressure. Julie measures her pulse-ox with a little band that wraps around her foot - she is holding onto Evie's foot to get the best reading she can:


After her stats, Evie gets weighed. Yesterday she was 14 lbs 9 oz!

Next is an EKG. For this, Evie has to sit or lay on the table and we try to keep her calm and still. Julie puts stickers on Evie, then hooks up several leads that measure a lot of different things going on with her heart.


She is all hooked up here - Francis says she looks like she's jacked into The Matrix. We gave her a bottle and the EKG went just fine (it only takes 60 seconds)! Pulling all those stickers off when she's done is the worst part.


"Whoa."

After all that, the cardiologist (Dr. Gulecyuz - he's awesome) listens to her heart from her front and back. Evie usually hates this part and we have to do our best to keep her quiet - otherwise he can't hear anything!



Then we talk about questions / concerns with Dr G., schedule the next appointment, and we're done!

This time though, Evie decided to stand by the window and hit the glass and make faces at the people walking into the office door below:


People were looking up at the window with puzzled looks on their faces. "Why is there a naked baby in that window?"


"We got a jumper!"

All done and ready to leave, after one last photo with her favorite nurse (Julie took care of Evie in the NICU on the day she was born)!