Children's Mercy

We have great news to report! Elisabeth was born with two heart murmurs that required us to take her to Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City when she was a week old. She was diagnosed with an ASD and a VSD, but the doctor really counseled us to treat her normally and pretend they weren't even there and then just bring her back in a year for a follow up.

Over the past year she has been as active as ever so it's been easy to act as if the murmurs weren't there. We took her for her follow up appointment this past week, and after an EKG and an echocardiogram, her doctor reported that both the ASD and the VSD are gone! In his words, her heart is "normal". YAY! We are so grateful for this good news and are thankful to God for our little girl's health.
We just had to take a picture of her in her cute little pint-sized hospital gown last week. You can see she's not too impressed with her new duds! She can make any outift look cute, though! She was a trooper through the echocardiogram, which took about 20 minutes. Dad entertained her with toys and she watched some of Monster's Inc. on the TV they had playing. We were so proud of her!


Coincidentally, I learned on the radio last week about the baby son of a Christian recording artist who is battling a serious congenital heart disease. I briefly glanced at their website and thought it was appropriate to share with our posting. Please pray for success for their upcoming surgery!
http://bowensheart.com/

We hope this finds you having a wonderful start to 2011!
Love,
The Rosses

P.S. As of January 5th, we officially have a toddler! Elisabeth has been walking nonstop ever since!