Interesting

It seems that my kids love to keep it interesting! After her first cross country meet, Randi went down at the finish line and couldn't get up without becoming super dizzy and was having problems breathing for about ten minutes. The next meet, she went down at the finish line again, taking probally 15-20 minutes to get up and going again. At her third meet, which of course was in Murray so we weren't there, she collapsed about half-way through the course. She said she laid on the course for 10-15 minutes before walking herself off. My question...where were the coaches? Where was any medical help? ANYWAY...we took her into the doctor where he said it could be her asthma, but maybe her heart. No running allowed. Really? Randi lives to run. Seriously, she does. We couldn't get her into an echo before friday. A whole week of no running. Our favorite tech, Doug, said results should be back to her doctor by monday, tuesday at the latest. By thursday, we were on the phone asking where the report was. Of course, it was lost. Well, not really lost, but in a certain doctor's basket, not finished and of course it was his day off. Then we're told sorry, but the second cardiologist wouldn't read it because first said doctor had "called" it. Randi had already missed a meet and almost two weeks of training. After many calls and many words, we did get a call back from Doug. He said he knew how frustrated we were and went and got the third cardiologist, who luckily enough had already looked at the echo, consulting with first doctor. He told us what was going on and said he felt that she could run again. Her diagnosis is a bicuspid aortic valve (which is leaking...along with at least one other valve). He said it is a congenital heart defect that occurs in 1 in 10,000 births. Put into Logan's population...five people have it. No wonder they are all fighting over it. It is an "interesting" case, so says doctor #3. Randi was SUPER excited to be able to run friday - two weeks after she went down. Sadly enough, I get a phone call from Doug on friday morning. Apparantly Doc #1 was back at work, saying he had been studying her images for a week and wasn't sure if she had a hole in her heart or not. Could I please bring her in, on our schedule, free of charge for more images. Randi was SUPER not happy when I picked her up right before cross country. Get to the hospital, take more images, call in Doc #1 to look at test real time, debate between the two of them if it was leaking at the corner of the valve or the wall of the heart, lots of blah, blah from Doc #1 covering his behind about taking so long for results, but in the end cleared once again to run. Hallelujuia! Of course, the euphoria didn't last long. Tucker had been complaining of hip pain for a couple of days. He missed a soccer game it hurt so bad. Tucker doesn't miss soccer. We just get Randi squared away, and Tucker comes to me, complaining that he now has a rash on the hip, all the way down to his knee. Once again, a call to Dr. Armstrong after they closed, race the kid down to the office where he lets us in (only 3 people there) and are told that Tucker has shingles. Yes, shingles. Thought that was an old person disease. It it is 95% of the time. Doctor said it was "interesting" that he would get it and how it presented. Poor kid. I've heard it is super painful for a long time. Hopefully since he's young and otherwise healthy, and we started anti-virals early, he won't get too severe of a case. Since things always happen in threes, we're taking bets on who's next. "