Feeling pretty sick and sad
Starting to feel better/playing on the ipad.
Getting ready to leave the house in the ambulance. He looks so sick.
Yesterday was one of the scariest days for our family. Dex has a heart condition called SVT, basically its where his heart will begin to beat very rapidly. He goes pale and begins to sweat, and just wants to lie down. We were told this is a minor condition unless he losses consciousness or begins to throw up or lasts longer than 30 min, in this case we should take him to the stollery Children's Hospital. On monday around 11:20 he told me his heart was beating, I didn't think much about it and told him to tell me when it stopped, I completely put it out of mind after this. 20 min later he told me it was still beating. I began to get a little concerned and thought we might need to head to the hospital, I went upstairs and got dressed and ready, I came down and he said it was still beating. I told him we were going to the hospital, he stood up to join me and immediately passed out. Cam caught him and he came to but immediately lost consciousness again, but came to a few seconds later. I ran and called 911. The ambulance came and with sirens going we were on our way. En route Dex had the oxygen mask, an IV put in and was so pale and just sweating. They told me what would probably happen would be they would stop his heart and then inject a medicine into his heart to restart it. Basically reseting it. I became a little teary at this point. Scary. We arrived to a whole room waiting for us, his heart at this point was beating between 240-271 beats per minute. They began trying Vegal manuvers where he blows on his thumb or bears down, put his face on ice. At this point it had been beating for over an hour. Finally, they tipped him upside down and his heart began to slow. They are worried when the heart beats this fast for this long because eventually the body begins to shut down to protect the heart or they go into cardiac arrest. His heart stayed at around 140-160 which is still too high for a 6 year old boy. They gave him an ultra sound and said possibly his heart had been damaged from beating for so long or a virus had entered his heart. These both turned out negative so they decided to just put him on a medication and IV fluids. By morning his heart had returned to 60-90 beats per minute. I stayed over night with him and Cam went home to all three other kids throwing up and having diarrhea, it was a really rough and stressful night for him. Rough two days for our family ;)
