Saw Dr D at GOSH today and Little S had her oxygen saturation level measured (mid to low 80's percentage points whilst 'normal' people are high 90's but at least it's the same as it was before her operation - it won't increase until she has the hole in heart closed as, until then, the de-oxygenated blood is still mixing with the oxygen-rich blood) and had an echo scan of her heart and arteries (which she didn't like as it involved being still for 15 minutes but was done relatively quickly).
Dr D was pleased with her progress - called her feisty - and told us we should reduce her medication to aspirin (once a day, at least until her next operation), two diuretics (each once a day, but only for the next week then stop) and paracetamol if she still needs it (probably we'll reduce it to twice a day but just for a few more days and then stop).
And he said that we'll probably have another angiogram in the first couple of months of next year.
So we left in a pretty positive state, given that last night was also Little S's first time sleeping through the night since the op! Now we can enjoy Chanukah and not worry until 2012 :-)
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