Day 3 in hospital

Gracie had a rough night. The nurses called at 12:45 am and told us to get up to the hospital. They said that Gracie's blood pressure had dropped to something like 40 or 60 over teen numbers and that her heart rate dropped into the 60s. They are really not for sure why that is because the pace maker should have kicked in when she went below 130 but it didn't. When we got there, Dr. Robinson was doing an echo and said the heart function looked good, but the x-ray didn't, so they are thinking it was all respiratory. They put in an arterial line so they are able to monitor her blood pressure constantly. She was stable last night and we left about 2:30.

This morning, Gracie had been running a fever but since it has come down. The culture from the trech is growning something so they are increasing antibiotics and will know what it is sometime later today. They also are trying to gain more access to vein because some of the medicines are not compatible with each other so they are trying to put in another central line. The plan was (before last night) to go to the cath lab Monday and do surgery sometime next week. Right now I don't know if that is still the plan but will continue to update.

Thanks for all the prayers and please keep them coming!