Pacer Check

Yesterday, Darth, Braden, and I went to Seattle Children's for Braden's pacemaker check. The mountain passes were great, so thankful for that.

The check went well. The clinicians that work in the electrocardiology area are so helpful and nice to work with. It was a pretty short and sweet appointment. Braden had 4 different conductor pads attached to his chest, with hook-ups to read the heart activity, and then the actual magnet that "talks" to the pacer was placed on his abdomen. The tech viewed the heart activity on the monitor and said everything looked good, the pacer was doing well and Braden's heart was responding appropriately. Because he is still so little and the pacer is relatively newly placed there will be some adjustments that will take place several months down the road after the heart recovers more from the initial surgery.

Lucky Braden also got to have some lab work. The lab tech at Children's are so good at working with little veins, we would just as soon have blood draws there when it is convenient. We celebrated our healthy little guy by dining at Teriyaki Madness in Kirkland for a late lunch. Their teriyaki chicken and rice is to die for! It took us back to our college days when we were poor and life was amazingly more simple.

Which reminds me: We are so grateful for medical insurance! The EOB's are coming in from all our medical fun and oh my! Yesterday we had nineteen of those in the mail. Our "Braden" file gets its own file box.

As we continue down this road called "life", we are so thankful for Braden and our three daughters. With every turn we stick together and support one another along the way. It's reassuring to know that Jesus holds the steering wheel and promises to never leave us alone on our journey! Life is truly precious!

- Jenni & Darth