Just wanted to give you a brief update on our appointments at Children's Medical Center in Dallas.We met with the pediatric cardiologist first and she performed a fetal echocardiogram. She confirmed the diagnosis of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. After reading the fetal echo, and studying the three hypoplastic (underdeveloped) areas of her heart, she felt that the baby's chances of surviving the three staged open heart surgeries were very good! HLHS is a "syndrome", so there are varying degrees of hypoplasia and we are very fortunate that her heart is not as severely underdeveloped or defected as it could be.We then met with the cardio thoracic surgeon, Dr. Forbess. I honestly cannot put into words how absolutely impressed we were with him. He sat down with us for well over an hour to discuss the three operations and answer our questions. After reading the results of the fetal echo, he also felt that she had a very good chance of surviving the surgeries. We were SO thankful to hear it from him, too!Dr. Forbess has amazing credentials and we both left there with this incredibly comfortable feeling that we totally and completely trust him with our daughter's life. We feel so blessed to have found him!!Thank you so much for your love, support and prayers. Please continue to pray that her condition does not change from now until delivery.
Love to all,
The Morrison's