It’s been a while since I last update on Anaqi’s cardiac condition. Back in May 2009 – weeks into his presence into this world – news of him having two holes in his heart daunted upon me. When cardiologists mentioned of the probability of a heart surgery, I was distraught. In fact, the whole family was. I prayed hard that it’ll never happen and that the holes will eventually get smaller and close on their own.
In case you haven’t heard, this was the entry I posted last year on my blog: http://aprima.org/2009/05/28/echocardiogram
Back then, his echocardiogram report was as follow:
Early in this year, on 6th Jan, I had brought Anaqi for a follow up check-up at KKH. His cardiologists said they could still hear slight murmurs in his heart when they listened via their stethoscopes. To confirm, they did another echocardiogram to scan his heart.
He slept soundly during the whole diagnosis, which took about an hour or so to complete. It seemed as though it had gone on for hours.
Last year when Anaqi did his first scan, I wasn’t focusing on the screens and was oblivious to the beeps and readings (that was before the doctors broke the news about the holes in his heart). The images on the screen looked similar to what I’ve seen during my FA scan when Anaqi was inside me. This time I paid attention to every single detail. His sleeping helped me focus better.
The result made me beamed a hundred dollar smile. Alhamdulillah, I was informed that one of his holes (the ventricular septal defect – VSD) has spontaneously closed! Which was surprising because the VSD was much bigger than his ASD (atrial septal defect). His ASD is still there however it has reduced in size to about 2.9mm. This is indeed great news! He no longer need to consume his medication – diuretics - for flushing out fluid from his lungs due to the mix of oxygenated and non-oxygenated blood flowing into them. His next follow up check-up will be in December this year. I hope then it will bear even better news for us, insyallah.
His scan results on 6th Jan.
