Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

ScienceKid is 16 today. Sixteen years, oh my, the memories, where did the time go? He has become a wonderful young man who I enjoy immensely and am so proud of too.

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Last week ScienceKid, while sitting at his desk, turned to me and complained about a discomfort in his chest. He had mentioned it to me before but the worry look in his face caused me to call the Dr. We were in his office the very next hour, and he was soon ordering an x-ray and ECG.

We went for the x-ray but had to wait a day for the ECG since the center’s machine was being repaired.

That was last Friday. Yesterday afternoon we went in to the Dr for our follow-up. I was thinking of blowing it off cause SK says the discomfort is pretty much gone and ‘we’ figured that he just strained a chest muscle moving all those blocks for his Dad two weeks ago when they made my mudroom-outdoor steps.

However we went in to the Dr., a she this time. She asked SK all kinds of questions and then told us that the ECG was abnormal, but she was 99.9% sure that the computer had just misinterpreted the chart. We need to go see a cardiologist and have him interpret the ECG.

But of course, as any mom would do, I used the internet to research what this ECG computer says my precious son’s heart condition is. The cardiologist has an opening today, however SK is spending his birthday with his Rhetoric club at a speech competition in Lancaster, PA, so we have to wait a week to see what a human says about this ECG. A week that will be filled with worry and concern.