Today was Olivia's appointment to the Geneticist and to get her echocardiogram done. We should find out the results of the echo tomorrow or so (it wouldn't surprise me if it took longer than that for the entire message to be relayed). Our geneticist said that he has now seen 6 people with the diagnosis who are not related. Three of these six have the dilated aorta. Currently, Livi is one of the 3 that does not have it. He wanted to follow up with the echo to reconfirm this and make sure things have not changed.
Yesterday, we visited Olivia's new school. I can't say that we are 100% sure of this decision, but I don't think we would be no matter what (sadly). There just isn't a clear cut choice for us right now. We took a tour of the school and got to meet the school counselor. It appears that they are implementing several things to help ease transitions for Olivia, and we are grateful for that. For example, this school has a free breakfast program for all kids. They will pair her up with a teacher and plan to eat breakfast together before the day begins. This will help her ease from "Adventure Club" (before school day care program sponsored by the college) and the start of her kindergarten day. Since Livi is a late breakfast-eater anyway, this will help us make sure she gets something to eat before the day begins.
Livi was happy at her 'new big school'. She says she's not ready to go, but liked to talk about it and said she liked the school later, so I hope that will change :)
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