This is a cute calendar Kyra made to put up on her wall...
Kyra has been complaining of chest pains now for awhile (at least 2 years or so) and we haven't done anything about it until recently, she has ended up in the nurses office multiple times and the nurse suggested we take her in to get checked out. We had already gone to Lovell Clinic and used a heart monitor for a month but nothing came of that, so we figured we better get a heart doctor to look at her. We took her to Billings and she had to get hooked up to an EKG to monitor heart. After being closely examined, it was determined it was nothing more than pains equivalent to growing pains in your chest. He said it can be quite common but he doesn't know why some kids get it and some kids don't. Can be related to stress and anxiety at times. He said the pains themselves are causing even more pains because she's stressed out from not knowing why she's even getting them to begin with. It was such a huge relief to hear all this and amazingly, it's been a year since we did this, and she hasn't really had any more pains, other than little minor ones here and there, but nothing like it was. Just knowing that she's ok has led her to not be so anxious about them, therefore she's not getting the stress related pains that go along with the worry.
Had to celebrate afterwards by going out to eat!
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