Friends:
Thank you so much for all of your emails, phone calls, and text messages over the last few days. We have felt your prayers! We are now home from Duke hospital. This is a "wait and see" thing that we are taking day by day. The baby's heart rate was very low on Tuesday when we were admitted and she was diagnosed with what is called a "complete heart block." The bottom chambers do not electronically communicate with the top chambers, which makes her heart pump very slowly. The big question is whether her heart will allow her to grow to term. If she grows big and strong enough, they can install a pacemaker upon birth or shortly thereafter. We are told that full term babies with pacemakers do well and live normal, healthy and active lives. The next three months are critical and she is being monitored at Duke every week and they are performing weekly echocardiograms.
We are praying without ceasing. We had a glimmer of hope Wednesday when a doppler showed a normal heart rate. The doctors were very skeptical that this could be so and so we do not know what to make of it. (We were told that third degree heart blocks rarely ever "reverse" and they had not seen one ever reverse at Duke. We're hoping she takes that as a challenge!). We are taking this one day at a time. Please continue to pray for our little girl. We go back to Duke next Tuesday.
Much love,
Drew & Anna
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