Friday, February 17, 2006

Chest pain and more

The illusive source of Sheela's chest pain Wednesday night appears to have been a broken scapula (mostly healed). We are guessing that she broke it falling off of Sunil's loft last month. She hasn't complained about it hurting since the day it happened -- though it was plenty sore that first day. They also heard a "click" when listening to her heart, which coupled with the elevated heart rate and elevated blood pressure mean that they want her to go to see a pediatric cardiologist. They've already done an EKG (perfectly normal) and a chest x-ray (great lungs and a healing scapula). Speculation is that the elevated pulse and BP were actually due to pain but they really want us to rule out a heart murmur.

1 comment:

-lyn said...

Good luck with the heart murmur testing.
Atta girl, Sheela -- good job, healing that broken bone!!! (I almost said "wing" but I'm sure your vocabulary has "scapula" firmly entrenched in it!!