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To Meyerland.Doc 1---your child has a one in 1.000 chance of dying (but doc doesn't mention medication].Doc 2---your child has a one in 100,000 or one in 1,000,000 chance of dying if he goes on medication and follows other rules regarding his health...That is why you get a second opinion
I will soon be in this situation. My son is a top football lineman and wrestler who had a horrific injury. He is out all year but is looking forward to wrestling and football next year. When his surgeon finished the operation in May, he advised us that he should not play again for a year. When my wife pressed the surgeon about long-term prognosis, the doctor recommended that he not play again. Though I have spoken with him about the possbility of him not playing, my son doesn't know that his doctor said this. I know he would be devastated, because there really aren't any other sports he could play.
When that time comes I plan on getting a second and a third opinion, as well as consulting alternative medicine practitioners.
I would not let the child play that kind of sport and you don't really need a second opinion on a leaking valve and irregular heartbeat -- I don't think. I would expect the first doctor would show you the evidence such as the test results and the heart it too important to mess with.
There could be other sports that would be less physically rigorous.
I just don't understand why the parents would allow it. For me it would be pretty simple. My child will not participate in activities that a Doctor has advised against due to his/her health. There are other ways to enjoy your childhood than sports.
I don't understand why he was allowed to play at all. My kids have always had to get sports physicals, and I'm certain he would have had to also. So, who allowed it, besides the parents? The coaches? The school? Somebody looked the other way, and this is the sad result.
Glad to see I'm not the only one having trouble with the buttons tonight.
Seems every year we read about a high school athlete dying during or after the game. If a parent knew the athlete had a condition and still permitted him to play that would not be very responsible. Maybe talking with the coach could help. They might let the kid help coach. A little different situation but I personally know of a situation where that worked well for a local lacrosse player and their JV team.
I would consider letting him play still. Why? Because it's not high school basketball he's being advised to give up. It's ALL exercise that stresses his heart, for life. For a person who enjoys being active having to give up almost ALL exercise is horrible, and unhealthy too. And there's no guarantee. You could become a couch potato and still die of a heart attack. You could continue exercising and live for many years. And like another poster said, does that mean he should never have sex as an adult because that would stress his heart? There's a point at which quality of life matters more than the risk of death. Although I'm surprised he was even allowed to play when he couldn't pass a physical. Isn't that why athletes have physicals? Please excuse the lack of formatting.
It's not giving up all exercise. It's giving up extremely strenuous exercise. Big difference.
My child has a weird heart. The sleeping heart rate is crazy low. It goes far below 30 bpm. The machines in the hospital can't be set low enough for sleep. They go off every time drifting off to sleep, which makes it impossible to sleep in a hospital. (This discovery explained why it was always like waking the dead in the mornings.) There's also an irregular heartbeat, but I can't remember the exact name of the type it is. Anyways, the doctor simply instructed "not to push it." Exercise and sports remained and still are a very big part of my child's life. Some pretty intense sports, but not to the level of a top rated basketball player striving for a professional career. If the doctor had indicated a more severe warning (like the boy who died did), we would have heeded it.
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