Stellan to the E.R.

"NO RELATIONSHIP," 10:34 am:

Thank you all for praying for us!

It has been a very long night and Stellan is exceedingly sick. Lots of poking, prodding and crying last night. But fantastic news: All interested cardiologists have agreed after examining Stellan's heart and other symptoms thoroughly that there is "no relationship" between his high heartrate (Which has been bouncing up and down through the night, not staying consistently tachycardic.) and his heart failure in the womb. He shows no signs at all of heart failure and his racing heart is due, the doctors tell us, to his illness.

Stellan "just" has a cold! It's a cold that is currently kicking his rear, though. He's in a great deal of discomfort (Sore throat? Achy? Hard to tell exactly why a young baby is hurting...), crying a lot and is having a very hard time sleeping since he can't breathe well at all.

But, we are on our way home!! We're not in the hospital anymore and are going to attempt to drive back home today, too. Stellan is going to see his doctors back home on Monday just to be safe and we're ready to get back into the swing of things anyway.

I'm hoping for smooth traveling, but even if not, I'm just so relieved that all the big stuff has been ruled out and our sick little boy is, in the grand scheme of things, just fine!

UPDATE, 10:35 pm, CST:

I just heard from MckMama (Who has been updating Twitter when she can, but that will get harder now as she is alone with Stellan at the hospital for the time being...and she is dictating to me on the phone what to write right now!) and she said that Stellan's symptoms of coughing, wheezing, having low oxygen sats, choking, and struggling for breath (Signs of a terrible cold that may or may not be RSV...still waiting on that) have now taken a back seat to the fact that Stellan's heartrate is running around 220, way too high.

Stellan has had a X-Ray, an EKG of his heart, is on oxygen (because his sats were in the low 80s and they should be in the upper 90s or 100) continuous heart monitoring as well as being hooked up to the pulse oximeter. She's waiting for the lab to come and draw his blood. The doctors at the hospital they're at (They are still away from home visiting her parents) are showing Stellan's heart strips electronically to the pediatric cardiologist who followed Stellan back home when he was so sick before he was born. I guess they are now just waiting for word on if that cardiologist thinks that Stellan's tachycardia is related to his bad cold, or if his heart has indeed flipped into a sustained electrically dangerous pattern.

Please pray that it is the former and that his high heart rate is only because he is sick with a miserable cold, and not because his heart is itself having problems. Please pray for wisdom for the doctors as they try to figure this out and that Stellan's heart rate will come down from its dangerously high pace, no matter what the cause of his tachycardia is.

ORIGINAL POST:

It's been a quick progression from bad to worse with Stellan's recent illness (likely the same one which the other kids have been fighting) while the MckFamily has been out of town for Christmas. Tonight, MckMama said Stellan was turning blue and having a very hard time breathing. She was unable to get a clear beat per minute count on his heart as she wasn't sure if she was hearing a very fast heart rate or just a slightly fast heartrate with very distinctive lub's and dub's.

Not wanting to take any chances with his health, they of course decided to take Stellan in to the E.R. MckMama's sister went with her to take him in and Prince Charming stayed behind at her parents' home to put the other MckKiddos to bed. Here's to praying his oxygen sats are good and that "all" he has is a rotten cold and that nothing else is rearing its ugly head.