A setback

When Brooklyn was first in the NICU her heart rate sped up in the 200's. Fortunately, she was able to calm herself down from this. It happened a second time later that day and she couldn't come out of it, so the nurses helped her by putting some ice on her face.

Brooklyn went about 48 hours without this happening, we thought we were in the clear. We got a call up to our room tonight that said her heart rate was back up and it had been going for about 20 minutes. We got down there as fast as we could. Right after we got there they were getting out the ice to try and calm her down because she wasn't coming out of it on her own. (I'm going to admit, this is right about where I lost it and couldn't watch what was going on.) The ice didn't bring her out of it. There next option was to get some medicine into her through her IV. The medicine should take her heart rate down immediately, well it didn't. They don't know if it was because her IV was in her foot and it just wasn't getting there fast enough or what. They put in a new IV, but the only spot they could find a good vein was on the front side of her head. (Definitely wasn't in the room for this.) This spot finally was able to reach her heart and her heart rate came down.

They let us know if it happens again they will probably transfer her to Primary Children's because they have a good team of cardiologists up there. They are going to start her on some regular medicine that is given to her twice a day that we will continue once she is home. They aren't sure what triggered it, it could have been her sugar line that's in her moved up and started tickling her heart. So they are going to take that out and put in a PICC line.

On a brighter note, Kenyan and I went down to visit her tonight and she woke up and was looking at us and was a very happy baby. We had a good visit with her, and I think it calmed both Kenyan and I down a little bit. Kenyan and I both got to hold her tonight and Kenyan was able to feed her while we were down there and loved being able to do that.

As hard as this evening was, Brooklyn is one strong little girl. We know she's going to pull through all of this, it's just a matter of time. We can't wait to be able to bring her home, but are extremely grateful that she's in good hands right now as well. Thanks to all of you for all of your thoughts and prayers. We appreciate them more than you know.