heart transplant

[wannabefishguru]

Where have you gone to be evaluated? There's a lot of grain elevators in Iowa...what one are you near??
And have you gotten a second opinion?

i have been evaluated at Fairview University Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota and aslo at the Heart Center in Mason City, Iowa. I live in Hanlontown, Iowa.

 

[wannabefishguru]

my son had cardiomyopathy due to probable myocarditis. He was much younger than you, though. He was eight months old when he got the flu and they said it affected his heart. In the hospital they had him on some pretty hardcore drugs but he recovered abnormally well. The doctors told my husband and I that some people get better, some worse and some stay the same. If he got worse and it couldn't be managed with meds then he would need a transplant. Since he was doing so well, when he came home the only two drugs he was on were digoxin, which is for congestive heart failure and captopril which is a blood pressure medication. After going for follow-up echos several times he was weaned off of the medications and now they tell us that his heart is fine. I'm sure that we were very fortunate especially with him being so little.

that is great to here that he came back so good. yeah that is what they told me, either it'll get worser, the same or better.

 

[nursie]

Just wanted to be sure you had an accurate assessment of your situation.
I knew Iowa City had a pretty good medical community, and we have a pretty good cardiac medical comunity over here too. St Louis too. Didn't know if you'd gone the Mayo's rounte or not.

I just looked you up on mapquest..you are just a hop skip and jump from Mayo's. Wasn't sure what part of Iowa you were in .