July 5, 2012 - Fourth of July

July 3, 2012 Ellie had her heart catheterization.  She did wonderfully!!  Her heart looks great....there is a slight leak in one of the valves they repaired during surgery last year and if it never gets worse (which they don't think it will) she will never have to have anymore procedures for her heart....if it gets worse.....she may need to have another surgery years from now...they don't think this will happen.  God has something wonderful planned for this little girl. She keep marveling us all!!   Here are two pictures of her heart.  One is before and one is after...

This is Ellie's heart before they did anything on Tuesday...you can see the cross over blood - the dark smokey looking areas....

This is Ellie's heart after they coiled the PDA valve. You can see the little coil in the image. You can also see the change in the amount of cross over blood there is.

This is Ellie recovering in the hospital - she did not have to spend the night.  She went in at 6:15am and we were home by 6:00pm that night.

 

July 4, 2012 - This is Ellie's offical first 4th of July fireworks.  She was in the hospital last 4th of July recovering from heart surgery during the fireworks.  She loved the fireworks...she just watched and watched...we all hated the heat but we made the most of it and for the most part we had a blast...here are some pictures.

cooling off in the misting fan

loving those bottles of water

eating a cookie

I rasised him right!!  LOL

watching the fireworks 

Watching the fireworks 

covering her ears...lol

 HAPPY 4th 2012 Ashton family!!