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Mei'ling
DOB: 06/08/03 14/22 translocation Mom Tina
My daughter was born with so
many medical problems that completely surprised us because I had such a
normal pregnancy. My daughter Mei'Ling was born with cardio problems,
ASD, VSD, and PDA, in other words 3 holes in her heart, the ASD is
closed now, but the VSD and PDA are still open and may have to have a
coil inserted for the PDA to close the hole. I'm keeping my fingers
crossed that the next time we go for her echocardiogram it will be
closed. She was also born with very high jaundice, her biliruben level
was very high. They did a liver biopsy when she was a month old and
found that her bile duct was very small and not allowing anything to
pass through and was put on Actigall. Happy to say she is fine now and
no longer on the medication. Mei'Ling was also born with a tethered
spinal cord. Mei'Ling was born with a dimple on her back called a spina
bifida occult mark, they did an MRI and CT and found that she had a
tethered spinal cord, meaning her cord was connected to fatty tissue at
the end of the cord. She had surgery this past February and it was a
success-very tiny scar. She had the surgery at A.I. Dupont Children's
Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware. She is now seeing an Ophthalmologist
there because she has a lazy left eye and is patched 2 hours a day and
just recently found she has some hearing loss in her right ear. The
Geneticist at Dupont believes all her problems could stem from her
chromosome deficiency but we really don't know and really don't know
what to expect in the future. If you were to look at her she looks
healthy and is very strong, but has delays in her developmental areas.
She just started to roll once from back to front, but that is about it.
She cannot sit or crawl and cannot grab food to feed herself. She eats
fine when fed and has very strong legs. She will begin therapy soon
through Easter Seals, so hopefully that will help.
Tina |
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