We had some visitors...wink wink and more than just the girls who made my nails super fantastic.
11:00am - the high-risk OB came in and did our daily sonogram to check Lil B's vitals (8/8 of course). There was discussion on beginning a new medication today to make sure that Lil B's heart doesn't spike again and that there will be no fluid build up.
11:45am - As the high-risk OB finished up, they were rolling the echocardiograph machine in to look at all the intricacies of Lil B's heart again. The heart rate is still bumping in the 230's and the fluid amount around the heart is staying the same (just a little above normal). There was more discussion on starting a new medicine: Amiodarone or the "big gun" as Dr. Horenstein calls it.
12:15pm - Dr. Horenstein, who was at the zoo with her family today, pops her head in our room and totally takes us by suprise. She wanted to check on us personally and be in on the decision making for the implementation of the "big gun" drug. Wow! I definitely feel well looked after and am thankful that we have, what seems to be, the "right" doctors looking after us.
1:00pm - So after much discussion, all three doctors (my cardiologist, the pedia-cardiologist, and the high-risk OB) have made the decision to start the Amiodarone today and monitor me and Lil B here in CIMU 406 until Monday or Tuesday. They want to watch my body's response to the new medicine and Lil B's heart and fluid rates as well.
1:30pm - Lunch is served. Now we wait... we rest...repeat.
2:00pm - Another EKG for my heart to test vitals before the new medicine is started.
Stay tuned.
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