[myamoto1]

Peppy - keep focused on the fact that your son is happy. that'll carry you through each day. I had (have?) a heart murmur from birth. Never slowed me down. I actually had a concaved chest for most of my life (had "elective" surgery about 15 years ago). I found, growing up that everyone I grew up w/ just looked at me as, just Josh. It wasn't until I moved to a new school that kids teased me. But I had 12 years of being "just Josh," that I didn't give a rat's a** what anyone else thought. Plus kicking their a** up and down the field in gym shut most of them up pretty quickly. As someone who was born w/ what I guess would be classified as a birth defect (I never looked at it like that), the best advise I can give you is to treat him just like any other kid. You may find he has some limits, but don't tell him what they are - let him find out on his own. You and he, will both be much happier for it.

Cheers