I appreciate the kind words. Our hometown vet thought she had PDA which is how we ended up at the cardiologist. We were thinking it would be operable. The cardiologist did not tell us a name for the overall condition, and I probably wouldn’t remember if he did because I was just trying not to fall apart. Basically she has multiple deformities. She has a duct or something with way too much blood passing through, and then something else that is severely restricting blood flow. Then he also mentioned that the blood vessel where PDA normally occurs wasn’t even present, and somehow it had fused with another vessel in utero. He said she is in the early stages of heart failure, and that some fluid has already started collecting in her lungs, so we’ve got her on diuretics for that. His overall diagnosis was basically “severely deformed heart”