Rebekah (2004)

Rebekah was born on December 23, 1999. She was tiny (5lbs. 4oz) but otherwise "perfectly healthy". We were sent home the next day. On December 28, we went in for a 5 day check up and they heard a loud murmur. The next two days were a blur of EKGs, x-rays, echos and second opinions. On December 30th they came up with a "final" diagnosis of dextrocardia, situs solitus of the atria, corrected transposition with pulmonary stenosis and nonrestrictive ventriculoseptal defect. Basically, her heart was backwards.

She had a follow up spleen scan in nuclear medicine as asplenia or polysplenia often is present with dextrocardia. After hours of torture, they found that she has a spleen.

Today, we wait and see. She is asymptomatic and looks like a normal healthy almost-toddler. She is "balanced" as they like to say. If she remains this way at or around age 5 they will begin to look at surgical options.