A Hearty Scare

Well well well - our little Seth (3 days out from his final cardiologist appointment - we had hoped!) decided to give us a bit of a scare. He was running quite a high temp yesterday and with it came a racing heartbeat - we measured it around 180BPM!! Seth was feeling absolutely miserable - very drowsy, quiet and off his food - very much UNLIKE our mile a minute little boy. So we called the ambulance - they whipped us off to hospital where they did an ECG, took blood samples, gave him some hydrating fluid, etc etc and gave him another dose of paracetemol and iboprufen (to lower his temp). Thankfully this also helped to lower his heartrate - which meant that his tachycardia was due to fever and NOT SVT. Which was wonderful news to us as that meant that he would not have to endure awful vagal manouvers (holding his breath, gagging him, ice on his head) nor would he have to have adenosine injected into his bloodstream. You would not believe how releived we were to hear this news.

As a precaution however the dr's decided to admit him overnight for observation. The nurses were awesome - in fact he was assigned a one-on-one nurse just to make sure he was ok. Bren stayed with us until about 2 am in the morning - when there was not much else to do except try and get Seth to sleep. I stayed with Seth in a comfy(ish) lounge chair and tried to get snatches of sleep when Seth also slept (which by the way wasn't much - poor little guy felt terribly crappy and kept waking every half hour or so). I think we got about 2 hours of sleep - oh how I am waiting for him to go to sleep today so that I can get a really long power nap in.

So there you have our little adventure - and I was wondering what to write next in our blog - hmm I think I'd rather write about the mundane thank you very much!!!!

Here's to the simple things in life - celebrate the everyday - appreciate the small things -

be thankful for all that you have.