A new Pace Maker

I always check Makenzie's heart every night, and as always I take a deep breath because the unknown scares me. I love hearing a healthy beat in her but I know how quickly life can change with in a sound of a heart beat. We have gone multiple times to the ER for irregular heart beats. Some just for dehydration and some for rejection. This time was different something I didn't expect so soon. Kenzie said her heart felt funny about an hour later after I checked it, so I checked it again and sure enough it was irregular. I always have Tyler listen to it just to make sure I'm ot hearing things and he heard the same thing. He said she is probably dehydrated because we had a long day of hiking and playing. I was praying that is what it was this time so I gave her some water to drink and waited for about another hour and it was still irregular. Kezie insisted on me taking her in. I love that she listens to her body and is old enough to no that something is worng. So I took her in that night around 10 P.M.

We arrived at the ER (usually I call the on call coordiantor but for some reason I didn't and I just took her in.) They hooked her up to the heart monitor took blood all that not so fun stuff they do in the ER. Dr. Day came in and examined her and said he thinks it might be her pace maker not firing off like it should. So they did a pacer check and had to call in a rythm specialist to come and take a look at it. Sure enough her pacer wasn't firing he thinks the lead isn't connected anymore