Re: prayers for Zipporrah and vascular rings

[Guest guest]

Boy you have a good memory...

I don't read every post lately (my husband got hurt at work and had surgery yesterday and will be out of work for three months..and our next baby/adoption is just around the corner and a half-a-millioin other things!)...so its good to put my name in the heading if you have more questions next time...

Yes had a abberant right subclavian and 's son did also. although his affected artery might have been different. Anyway, when we adopted him he was almost seven months old and the foster mother, who was very seasons with him being her 60th foster child, told me he coudlnt' keep much down but she kept feeding him anyway. Being a first time mom, I didn't know what to think but not quite content to just keep feeding him and him puking it back it. So I tried making my own food, organic food and so on...nothing...he could only keep sweet potatoes and pears down most of the time...and his formula of course. He was gaining weight too! He was born weighing 3.11 and when we got him he was 22 pounds so I can see how no one thought much of it. The pediatrician finally suggested a barium swallow after I was at my wits end, and a very intelligent radiologist happen to catch it...the atery was laying accross his trachea and esophogus...we had to go to a cardiovascular surgeon. They treated it promptly b/c in his case, anyway, it was life-threatening. He was eleven months old when he had the surgery...he practically went straight to table food, and of course if you ever saw a picture (you can go to my website and see pictures from his last week even...click on 'meet my family') of him, you would know he didn't miss a beat in the eating department...always a BIG guy.

I am happy to answer any questions you had...just put my name in the heading...

deb...mom to three great adopted kids... (07.04.96-05.26.03) with Mitochondrial Disease, Gaige age 5 with High Functioning Autism & dysfluency and Bliss age 2 with very very mild Cerebral Palsy.www.HeartLiftersGallery.com