Once More, With Feeling (UPDATED)

12:55pm: In my haste to get some info up, I neglected to state how Ayden is doing. He went through the study just fine. He is already back up in his room (not still in the PCCU), woke up from the sedation, ate some lunch, and has now gone back to sleep. He looks and acts just the same as he did before the study. Thank God for that.


12:10pm: The pacing study is over. They were able to induce an SVT without much trouble, so they will be adding a second anti-SVT medication, then will redo study in a few days (Wednesday at the earliest, Thursday or Friday is more likely). This is a good thing to know (we don't want an SVT while he is home), but had they not been able to induce one, the cardiologist had already told us we'd be going home tomorrow. Oh, well. I told him a while back to let us know if they were thinking about sending him home too soon. I guess he's done that.




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Once again, Ayden is scheduled to have his pacing study done today. Supposedly, he'll head down to the PCCU for it by noon. He isn't allowed to eat for several hours before it. I last fed him formula at 12:30 this morning, then some Pedialyte at 3:30 (which he hated). Needless to say, he is back into hungry baby mode. Needless to say, also, is that I haven't slept very much since 3:30. I really hope this thing actually happens today. I feel like I'm torturing the little guy.

As before, the doctors will try to induce an SVT (what's an SVT you ask? - see here). Ideally, they won't be able to, which will indicate that his current dose of anti-SVT medication is enough to prevent them, and we'll be that much closer to going home. If they can induce one, I can only assume that they will up his dose, wait probably about a week, and then do another pacing study to determine if that dosage is sufficient.

So, if you get the chance, please say a quick little prayer that they can't induce an SVT. I will post the outcome sometime later today.