NICU again

Most of you have gotten an e-mail asking for your prayers for Abbey as she was in NICU again last week after a routine doctor's appointment led to the discovery of a super fast heart rate in our little baby.

She is home now and doing well. I actually find that hard to type! That is the question that people ask, "So, she's okay?" But I can't bring myself to say 'yes' to that. She is still stable, with a regular paced heart rate - but in my opinion that is due to medication....not to her body's own ability to keep her heart at a regular rate. The problem with saying 'yes' to the "Is she okay" inquiry is that in a few months or a year from now if she has to undergo surgery....anyway for now I am comfortable saying that she is doing well, and hasn't had any more rounds of SVT.

Maybe I will feel more comfortable saying she is okay after we see a cardiologist and have some of these things explained more clearly.

Here are some pics of her in the hospital.


I am extremely awful at getting the pictures I actually want. I always forget until it is too late. For example, I wanted a picture of her little naked body with the sensors stuck to her chest for the monitors. I didn't get it when she was newborn, and I didn't get it this time. I wanted to get a close up of her little hand with the IV in it, but again, no dice!

Here is a pic of her in her massive crib on 4F - the pediatric ward.

She looked so small in there. Let me say however, that being on 4F would have been so much better for the time we were in there.

Simply because I was able to stay in the room with her, and there was actually somewhere for her sisters to play when they came to visit. All in all it wasn't the worst, although it felt like it at the time. Now is probably more difficult for me, just wondering what on earth is going to happen now...I mean will they have a reason for me when I take her to the cardiologist? Would it still be happening if she wasn't on meds? Will it happen again as she grows, and her dosage needs to be adjusted?

For now I am trying to live by Matthew 6:34 "Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." But it isn't always easy!

Thanks for your prayers - hopefully I will have more to say on Thursday!

c