Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Day 3...it was a little rough

Today, was interesting to say the least.  Sometime in the AM alarms started going off because of irregular PVCs and multifocal PVCs. Dr. Google in the middle of the night is never a good idea.  Something to do with irregular extra heart beats that disrupt the normal beat.  Her fever is gone.  They thought the problem was the chest tube, that came out with no troubles.  But didn't help the PVCs. Cardiologist wasn't too worried, but ordered and Echo because she heard a rub along with the heart murmur (whatever a rub means).  The Echo looked pretty good, gradient down to the 30s which is what they hoped for.  She was pretty out of it most of the day.  She was having some trouble with her BP and a high heart rate, so they did a bunch of labs.  The PVC's continued throughout the day.  The on call cardiologist read the echo more closely around 5PM and noticed her heart was struggling a bit and was working a little too hard for what it should be, so they put her IVs all back in and started her on some magnesium, potassium, and switched her to a flow of basically ibuprofen because they think she is having a bit of pain.  They also have her on something to help her heart so it doesn't have to work so hard.  They'll see how that goes tonight and tomorrow and then go from there.  They'd like to figure out the PVCs and so far they are still happening about as frequently as they were earlier.

Quinn perked up a lot when we video chatted with Mylee and Tahlia tonight, that was a good sign.  She hasn't been to interested in her bottles, but hopeful she'll start getting hungry soon.

Her incision doesn't look scary at all.  That's a good sign.  Can tell she's had a rough day from her morning pic to her evening pic.

Love this sweet baby so much!

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for the updates I sure hope the doctors get it all figured out soon

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  2. Thanks for the updates I sure hope the doctors get it all figured out soon

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  3. Prayers for little Quinn and her full recovery...Louie, Amy & Cheyenne Okey

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  4. Sara & Chris---sending prayers and thoughts for healing

    your OS family

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