Sunday, March 15, 2009

What's the deal with holidays?

Nick has been at the hospital or had weird things happen with his heart on holidays a lot. We've spent 2 Thanksgivings, Easter, Valentines Day, Halloween, and we just BARELY missed spending Christmas at Primary Childrens Medical Center. He has also had his defibrillator shock him on Leap day and on St. Patricks day. Something is weird.

We may get to spend THIS St.Patricks at PCMC too.

We're headed back to SLC tonight and are going be taking Nick to PCMC tomorrow to be seen. Yesterday morning his heart fibrillated enough to need a "therapy" shock from his ICD. Luckily when he passed out he didn't get hurt too badly. He just hit his eye (on the floor?)but it isn't too bad.
When we spoke with the cardiologists at the hospital they instructed us to bring him back down Monday. They weren't able to schedule an appointment, but they want him there and they said they WILL work him in. So. We'll see. He's really done a great job for the last year. The last known shock he received was March 17th of last year! His heart fibrillates ALL the time. Several times a day, but it has generally been able to correct itself before the device is needed to correct the problem. We've been very fortunate. Hopefully this trip won't be a BIG deal.

I'm beginning to think that subconciously Nick likes to be at the hospital for
holidays!

Wish us luck!

3 comments:

twinzmama said...

Good luck! Hope all goes well, we'll be praying for you!

Erin said...

Good luck with everything! We sure hope everything goes well!!!

Dana, Proud mommy to 4 said...

Good Luck! I'm praying for you guys!! Let us know if we can do anything for you.