52 Days

After a little concern about some fast heart accelerations yesterday afternoon, Max (who is now 52 days old) was transferred up to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City last night. Before the transfer an EKG was done, and even though that came back relatively normal, the staff at American Fork Hospital and Primary Children's thought it would be wise for the transfer. After another ambulance ride, Max arrived and was admitted about 8 p.m.

He was reattached to the monitors and some more labs were drawn to double-check some of the previous tests. Everything has seemed to be going pretty well today and we were hopeful that we'd be able to go home tonight. However, the cardiologists here aren't 100% convinced his accelerations are normal, so we are now waiting for a holter monitor to be attached. This monitor requires at least a 24-hour following, so we most likely won't return home until at least Sunday morning; assuming results come back normal. We also just found out that the I.V. in his arm was infected and had to be removed just moments ago. Poor little Max has already had to have three different I.V.'s inserted and might have to have another one done. We now have to wait for the wounds/infections nurse to visit and see what needs to be done, if anything.

Mystery Diagnosis

This past Monday night Max was admitted to American Fork Hospital. Without warning, about 9:30 p.m., he went limp and started turning blue. We immediately called 911 and managed to get some sort of color back by the time they arrived. He was transported by ambulance to the ER where after several inconclusive tests, was admitted to the Pediatric unit. On Tuesday he had two more of the same events, one right when the attending pediatrician was here conducting his rounds. He has had a CT scan and EEG, both of which came back normal, and more than 15 various other blood tests. We are still waiting to hear back about several of these tests, but we do know that his lactic acid lab was a little higher than normal. This afternoon he also had to have an EKG due to slight accelerations in his resting heart rate. As one doctor put it, these episodes and slightly high lactic levels could be 20-30 different things.

We know that when we finally do leave the hospital, we'll be sent home with an apnea monitor and possibly even a heart monitor. We'll have to follow-up with a neurologist at Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City where a MRI might even be necessary. Our little Max has done relatively well throughout this entire process. Many of the nurses have commented that he's a "strong one" as he likes to put up a fight everytime they've drawn blood or changed his monitors.

Our Visitor

Our family was visited by a little snake last night that Jeremy spotted when he was taking out the trash. The snake was probably more scared himself since he kept trying to slither out from under the van, only to quickly return. It wasn't until we all moved away that he managed to escape into the grass.