Cath today.

We will be at Primary Children's Medical Center today. It's the day of Darla Jane's heart catherization. They will go up an artery near the groin area and feed a wire to her heart. There they will be able to better see the blood flow, measure pressures and most importantly place a stent, which is a wire mesh ring in her aorta where there is some narrowing. They will hopefully be able to place an adult size stent so that as she grows they will be able to slowly stretch it to fit her full grown heart. She will need to go in every year or 2 to have this done.
This is a picture of a stent. (courtesy of google images) it is narrow as they feed it into place and then a little balloon is inflated to stretch it out. Hers will be stretched little by little as she grows, through subsequent procedures. I'm not sure that is how long hers will be though.

Today she will need to go under anesthesia, which is always a little scary, but she is over her cold and ready to go so she should do great.

Little miss will need to stay at the hospital over night which is standard procedure when a stent is place in case it moves. A chest xray in the morning will confirm that is hasn't and she should be back home again tomorrow.

We will definitely update on how it goes.