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We took Bean to the cardiologist this morning. She hadn’t seen anyone in her pediatric cardiologist’s practice in about two years, and we were anxious to have an EKG to find out if she had outgrown her WPW. (The awful story of how we learned all about WPW is here.) Sometimes, apparently, babies with the syndrome do outgrow it as their hearts grow and develop. Bean has been doing so well, we were optimistic, but I admit I fully expected to find out she still had it, and we would need to schedule her for catheter ablation next summer.

I was pretty happy when the doctor looked at her EKG and told us that he sees no evidence of WPW anymore. He mentioned a slight heart murmur, which is apparently normal for her age and nothing to be concerned about. He listened to her heart via stethoscope for a long time, then they ran an electrocardiogram, just to be sure. Everything looked good. My baby is cured!!

They still want her to endure a Holter monitor, just for thoroughness. I suppose I shouldn’t fault them for that, but try explaining to an active four-year-old why she has to wear all those stickers and some device for 24 hours (along with pulling off the very sticky leads later). Not fun. So we go back in a week and a half to get that. Then we just have to follow up every two years or so.

And THAT news is good for MY heart.