Today we moved to the PEDS floor (at 9PM). Which is great news since in the morning they said another night in the PICU. They were hoping the potassium and magnesium would help with the PVCs, but it didn't although now her labs are coming back good with the boost in electrolytes and now that she is eating bottles pretty regularly she's doing quite a bit better. They believe that the right side of her heart, because it was so overworked before, doesn't know how to relax and is working over time. So they are giving her digoxin and milrinone to help with low cardiac output system and the PVCs We stopped the milrinone in the morning to see how she does off that. So far her heart rate has dropped to the 150s, yesterday it was the 170s, the goal is the 130s but things seem to change all the time so maybe we can leave sooner.
They did an Echo today to check for fluid around the heart and there was none and they determined the PVCs are benign and that her heart just needs to figure it out. The doctor last night thought maybe we could go home Monday (wishful thinking would be Sunday, the nurse asked if we were going home Saturday, so maybe she knows something we don't).
Quinn had lots of visitors on Friday. Mylee and Tahlia came, Grandma and Grandpa, and Aunt Shelly. Daddy also came back for the weekend. She was pretty wild with all her visitors. Still didn't sleep very well, but it's a new room so I am sure that is why.
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