Wolff-Parkinson What????

Kalista sporting a new hair-do after surgery

Kalista is like a baby onion. With each layer there is something else more juicer to digest. Sometimes it makes you tear up...sometimes not. Today...no tears. Kalista is healing up so well. She started back on plain 'ol breast milk this past weekend through her new G-tube at 5 mL to start and then increasing about 5-6 mL every 12 hours until we reach 90 mL or maybe more since she is a bigger girl now.

Kalista enjoying food in her tummy once again

So the latest layer of the peeled onion is that Kalista's heart is fluttering a little abnormally. There was a previous concern about a heart arrythmia that was noticed right after her reduction surgery and the cardiology team has been just monitoring her since then. They told us that they suspect that she may have an arrythmia called Wolff-Parkinson White Syndrome, but they can't confirm it. On Saturday, they took a chest x-ray, which showed a slightly enlarged heart...pretty normal for just having had surgery. They also hooked her up to a 12-lead EKG to see the conduction of the heart a little bit better. The EKG report indicated an extra blip (delta wave) and that her heart is dextro-positioned (slightly position more toward the right of her chest), which we already knew about since she was born.

Cardiology did their full work-up today and talked to Dr. Perry (the guru of electro-conduction of the heart); in the end it doesn't seem like the cardiac team is very concerned since Kalista is so stable. They are just going to continue to keep an eye on her but nothing more. That sounds good to us...no need to worry in the end!