Not many new details to post on Father's Day. Since yesterday evening the nurses have been trying to feed Audrey bottles but she generally won't wake up to drink them so they have had to feed her through a tube fed down into her throat while she continues sleeping to ensure that she can handle it all fine, keeps it down, and digests it. She has handled that well allowing them to start on the oral beta-blocker medication which will slow the overall heartrate down. This will take a day or two to really take effect. They have also begun taking down the dosage on the lidocaine slightly to start weening her off of that. The doctors will then decide whether we try the beta-blocker/pacemaker combination solely or also add the mexiletine medication as Amanda was taking while in the hospital. Each of the steps we are taking now then requires close monitoring for an amount of time after the change so it feels like the process is all moving so slow but we just have to remain patient.
A big thank you to everyone for all of the support and encouragement.
- Mark
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