Well, Daniel's pain is subsiding and it's looking like he might be released really soon. Maybe tomorrow morning! Daniel had one last procedure today and it went well. There is a well known heart doctor here at UVRMC who specializes in arrhythmia, and he did an electrical test on Daniel's heart today to see if a defibrillator would be necessary. The test ended a couple of hours ago, and it was determined that there is nothing wrong with the electrical elements of Daniel's heart. That means it was definitely the valve that caused all the problems in the first place and sent his heart into arrhythmia - not a combination of things. Daniel is now recovering from that last test and has to lay flat on his back and totally still for a few more hours. That is NOT going to be easy for him, but he's till somewhat sedated from the test, so hopefully he'll only have to make a concerted effort to hold still for the last hour or two.
This was actually a pretty serious procedure and the doctors had to go into some of Daniel's arteries and put cameras and things inside him to look for problems. This may add a few days to his recovery time. Poor guy, he's been poked and cut open so many times. They finally stopped checking his blood sugar yesterday, but that's been 3 weeks of finger pricks twice a day. His fingers won't bleed for the nurses anymore! And it took 8 tries to get his IV in last night for today's test. He's never going to want to see another needle in his life when he finishes this! :)
He's not completely out of the wood - the doctors are going to want to continue to observe him for a while until he's cleared to go home to Texas. He will be receiving out patient care for at least another week maybe two before he and my mom make that trip back. But all of his recovery has been way ahead of schedule so far, so who knows when they will actually let him go!
PS- his pink phone broke yesterday..we don't know what happened but none of the buttons will respond, so he can't read his texts or answer calls. Sorry! He's not ignoring you! He's been very specific during this ordeal that he will NOT be keeping that pink phone, so we're working on getting him another one tomorrow. Just contact him on facebook for now. Thanks everyone!!
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Dan, this is Brandon again... you don't know me but Rebecca
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Hey the laying flat afterwards is the WORST PART!!!! I hated that! The electrical tests / mapping they do (I had 3 ablations after my valve replacement because they had actually irritated certain parts of my heart that had already been problematic... good news is those procedures work well! However it is terrible waking up from it!!! That is great news the electrical stuff looks good! I had a dr Bradley from there who did my first two ablations and the third was done with a whole team there, they know what they are doin!! Hang in there pretty soon you'll hardly believe you actually went through all of this!
Brandon