Last Thursday we had an appointment to take Winston to see a cardiologist. During his 6-year checkup his doctor heard a heart murmur. Because a heart murmur had never been detected before, he wanted us to have it checked out to make sure it wasn't something serious like a hole in Winston's heart that might be getting larger. So we went to Spokane and saw the cardiologist. Tom took the day off to go with us. The good news is that Winston's heart murmur is a 'normal' murmur. That is where when the valves of the heart go to close, they don't always close all the way and it creates a little 'whistle' sound. A lot of people have that kind of murmur and never have any ill effects from it. But while we were there they used the ultra sound device and took pictures of his heart. We got to see it on a monitor and hear it. It was really neat. Tom had never seen anything like it before and he was a little 'weirded' out by it at first, but once he got used to it, he thought it was pretty cool. Winston got to keep a couple of the pictures that they took and he's already taken them to school for show-and-tell. He's pretty proud of it all and loves to tell everyone all about it!
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