"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
--Jeremiah 29:11

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Home from the Appt.

Dr. Bromberg made a special trip in to the office to see his favorite patient today. We got there two minutes before the doctor and he came out himself to the waiting room to get us. Connie was interrogated where he was found to be in atrial flutter AGAIN (insert frustrated sigh). He tried to pace him out of it, but Connie didn't like that too much. A couple of attempts was all he could take. It was making his A rate 300ish and his V rate 150ish. So now we're all set up for cardioversion tomorrow morning at St. John's. He'll be admitted to the PICU at 7am and the procedure should be at 9am. Hopefully we'll be outpatient as long as Connie doesn't throw any curve balls in there. While they are starting the IV, they will draw a bunch of labs to check liver and thyroid function and get another INR level. If the labs show he's tolerating the current amiodarone dose, meaning it isn't hurting those other systems, then his dose will be increased 50% so he'll be taking close to 20 ml! I joked with him that I'd have to put it in a juice cup now instead of a syringe. The other frustrating thing about all this is that the mode switch was not switching again on the pacemaker. That is getting really irritating and tomorrow when we get more time to talk to him, I'm going to really press for some answers on that one. This is getting really old, making these monthly hospital trips. The good news is that while this is frustrating and a little scary, it's not nearly as scary as surgery or something really invasive. I'm so grateful we're not talking about that now.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'll be offering tomorrow's mass for Connie, that all goes well. Love and many many prayers. Sr J