C.O.A and Mosaic Turners Syndrome..

[HazinBlaze]

I posted a while ago about my daughter coming 2 1/2 weeks early. After a week she wasn't eating right, took her to the doctors and found out her aortic valve is closing off (C.O.A) and needed a bypass on the heart to fix it. Well surgery was Monday and everything went great and this morning she got off the respirator and is recovering from everything good. Yesterday the surgeon pulled me aside to tell me they found out she has Mosaic Turners Syndrome which means her blood cells aren't the same as normal peoples. Most people are like 46xx (boy) or 46xy (girl) my daughters are 45x (turners) but also has some 46xy so she's not a pure form of Turners. Turners is only found in girls and cause them to have learning disabilities, web necks, broad shoulders, and cause women to be short, have trouble getting pregnant, and a few other things and they said for my daughter she has a 50/50 chance at getting any of this or if she does it can be a mild case of it because she does have some normal cells.

Just kinda wanted to share that and maybe find out if anyone else is going through this..

[Mrs_Baze]

I do not have any experience with this but I have learned a little about Turner's syndrome. It's rare but not that awful, really. There are far worse things that can happen. I would be more concerned about her heart. Good luck to you and your family, it must be hard to be dealing with all of this.

[HazinBlaze]

Her heart is definitely the most important. Turners is just a cell deficiency and isn't really gonna have any effect on her till she's older and that's still a maybe. But we'll deal with that when the time comes. However, I spoke with the doctor today and he is happy her progresses as far as recovery. Today they are gonna try bottle feeding, taking down on medications and hopefully have most of them gone by tomorrow so she can get her line out of her neck then. :)

[Mrs_Baze]

That's good news!