Thursday, February 28, 2013

Left With Questions

Anniek's cardiologist appointment today went well.  We see them again in 6 months, so I was happy about that.  Then I got thinking about the one question that the cardiologist asked for some reason.  The cardiologist asked about how long Anniek was on antibiotics when she was sick last fall and on a PICC line with IV antibiotics for a month.  She said was looking into it more and said that usual treatment from what she has read is usually a year of IV antibiotics so she wants to look into why the Doctors at the time had decided why they felt that Anniek needed them for only a month. What Anniek had in the fall is pretty rare - Post Strep Reactive Arthritis.  It really left me wondering why she mentioned had suddenly realized this.  From what I had read in the little information that is out there about this had said a year.  So I do not know why out of the blue she asked about how long she was on antibiotics for. She also asked if she could go grab one of the other Doctor's students so that she could listen to Anniek's heart and her murmur.