Kelsey is much improved today.
Her heart rythum is finally pacing at a normal rate, and has dropped to about 150 beats per minute.
Her blood pressure is good.
Today at 11:45am they removed her drainage tube. This is the one that you see coming out of the right side of her stomach area.
Hopefully they will remove her respiration tube sometime later today or possibly tomorrow. The lasic is beginning to do its job. She is urinating large quantities of liquid. This will help reduce the swelling on her arms, legs, face, heart and organs.
Yesterday was a rough day on Kelsey. There were many complications. Her heart was not pacing correctly. She was in a junctional rhythm. Which means the upper pacemaker and lower pacemaker of the heart were not communication with each other.
One scary moment yesterday her blood pressure got extremely high at about 136 over 92. (Normal for her is 60 over 30) Her heart rate was up to 184 and they could not get her blood pressure or heart rate down. They tried several medications to control her blood pressure and heart rate. At one point they had her hooked up to the pacemaker to pace her heart, which didn’t help. Finally after a combination of medications they got her stable.
Her arms and les were extremely cold because of improper blood flow, due to the poor pumping of the left ventricle. Due to the surgery her right ventricle is swollen and putting to much pressure against the left ventricle causing the poor circulation.
They had to chang her central line to her vein because it was leaking. The line is used to administer her medications.
Yesterday we met an 8 year old boy named Anthony Mitchell from Abilene, TX. Anthony was born with (TOF) and had the exact same surgery as Kelsey. This was his 3rd surgery. At birth he was completely blue and had to be care flighted to Cooks Children’s Hospital. He was 7 weeks old at the time of his 1st surgery to close his VSD. At about 1 year old he had his 2nd surgery to remove his pulmonary valve. On Tuesday he had to have a pulmonary valve implant (the same one they just removed from Kelsey). He was on several medications all his life, for his heart. Today he is going home and will not have to take anymore medications. His heart is as normal as yours and mine.
Anthony wanted to meet Kelsey before he left to go home.
10 comments:
Meeting Anthony was a blessing, let's hope the worst is past for baby Kelsey. Hopefully she too will come through as Anthony has.
Much love, Manfred, Cyrene, Eric and Pilar
Thinking of all of you, stay strong. Lots of love to Baby Kelsey. Hang in there pretty girl!
It was awesome meeting Anthony! He is such a neat, brave and cool kid. His family was so nice in talking to us, answering our questions and just being considerate of what we are going through, cause they have been there. In just a few days of an open heart valve implant, he is going home. I am sooo impresed with this young man. Thanks Anthony for talking to us. You have helped our family. Thanks also for the little pink doggy, it is now in her hospital crib. So sweet of you to bring that.
I wish Anthony a speedy recovery!!!
Nancy (Kelsey's Mom)
Thanks for taking the time to keep us all updated on the developments. We really appreciate it..
Love and prayers
Joe and tish
Kelsey really does look great, and I told Darren I would check out her blog so here I am. Hope all is well
Emily
Emily is one of Kelsey's nurses. She has been wonderful to us and has taken great care of Kelsey. It is nice to see our nurses care enough to check out the blog. Emily thinks she will be getting rid of us as soon as Kelsey gets her own room. Boy is she wrong!
Hola Daron y Nancy
Nos alegra que la cirugia de Kelsey haya salido bien, ella es un hermoso angelito que se repondra pronto.
Saludos y besos.
Pedro, Felisa, Ana, Pedrito, Blanca y Andrea
Hi Nancy and Daron,
I was hoping to see an update on Kelsey. How is she doing today Monday? How are you two doing? Hope all is moving in the right direction with no setbacks.
Nancy, my e-mail address is
romeromurray@yahoo.com I forgot to send it to you the other day.
Hope you will have a chance to send more pics of Kelsey.
Daron, I talked to David the other day to wish him a happy B-day and I informed him of Kelsey's health and operation. He will be calling you soon if he hasn't already done so.
Well, sent you all my love and warm wishes. I will continue to pray for Kelsey's quick recovery.
Patty
We are so glad to hear that Kelsey is doing better and in her own room. Hopefully the arrythmia will work itself out. My daughter, Amy and her daughter, Alyssa are in the metroplex for Alyssa's eye appt. and will stop by to see you if time allows. Anthony continues to get stronger and healthier each day. His appetite is growing too. He has already started catching up on his missed homework and will go to school Friday for some tests while the other children are out at P.E. It was wonderful meeting ya'll and hope God continues to bless and keep you and your family.
Thinking of you,
Susan Mitchell (Abilene)
Susan,
Thank you. Amy and Alyssa did stop by this afternoon and it was nice hearing that Anthony was doing great. She said it's hard keeping him from wanting to play at full speed. I pray that he will continue to grow strong
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