Still waiting...

Almost three weeks ago, as part of his SVT monitoring and treatment, Daylon came home from his cardiologist with a Holter device. Holter devices capture EKG readings for a 24 hour period of time and in Daylon's case reveals how many SVT episodes he has in that period of time. This first Holter session revealed that he had had eight SVT episodes, not very encouraging at all. This meant that in addition to the Digoxin medication he was taking another medication, Propanolol, was prescribed.

After three days of taking the Propanolol four times a day another Holter session was done almost two weeks ago. The cardiologist was hoping that the additional medication would bring the number of episodes down, hopefully driving that number down to zero. Jeanne and I are little anxious, and worried to say the least, since we still haven't heard back about the results! We are praying Daylon and his little heart are indeed improving!

Here are links describing Digoxin and Propanolol. The short of it is is that Digoxin keeps the heart's electrical impulses at bay while the Propanolol is used for hypertension, for Daylon this means slowing his heart rate down just a little.

Photos!






Above photos were taken July 3rd. The last one is of Daylon and the Holter device. Poor guy!


Daylon meeting his Great-Grandpa Wood.