Thank you all for your prayers! A few of our friends, family and church family have asked what they could pray for specifically. As most know, Hudson has been moved from Pediatric ICU (PICU) for critical care to Neonatal ICU (NICU) infant care yesterday around 1pm MDT which is a step in the right direction!
| Prayer Request | Answered |
| Hudson had a few arrhythmia’s (irregular heartbeat) last Monday morning at 915am MDT that caused his blood pressure to drop. Please pray it was just irritation from surgery and that he will not need drugs to control it if it’s not due to irritation from the operation | |
| Please pray the arrhythmia’s do not cause harm to his body, especially his brain | |
| Please pray the pacemaker test they plan on doing reveals the arrythmia’s were due to irritation from the operation | |
| Please pray the pacemaker test does not cause him to have another potentially dangerous arrhythmia called Supraventricular Tachycaria (aka SVT). His heartrate went up to 220+ beats per minute | May 5, 2010 |
| Please pray he continues to be free from infections | |
| Please pray he can stop the drug Esmolol that is used to keep arrhythmia’s under control. It’s being used as a precaution | May 13, 2010 |
| Please pray he can stop the drug Milrinone that is used to keep his heart function stronger and that his heart is strong enough without it | Apr 28, 2010 |
| Please pray he doesn’t need to have the drug Epinephrine (adrenaline) again to bring up his blood pressure | May 5, 2010 |
| Please pray he is able to get off the ventillator and breathe room air again. His oxygen saturation levels (aka sats) are on the low end of normal without it providing a higher concentration of oxygen (65%) than in room air (21%). Normally, sats are at or close to 100% in you or I breathing room air but his are between 67% and 80% right now. | May 5, 2010 |
| Please pray he is weened off Morphine and moved to Tylenol | May 6, 2010 |
| Please pray he doesn’t need the drug Midazolam used to keep him sedated | May 8, 2010 |
| Please pray he doesn’t have any troubles weening himself from the drugs with addictive properties | May 15, 2010 |
| Please pray he doesn’t need any medication much more than a blood thinner such as Aspirin after being able to go home | |
| Please pray that the drugs don’t react with each other | May 15, 2010 |
| Please pray he just gets off all these drugs | |
| Please pray the drugs don’t have long term side-effects on his body | |
| Please pray his chest heals quickly and he remains strong | May 6, 2010 |
| Please pray his little heart is able to provide for his body. The right side is a little overloaded because of it doing the work of 2 sides. | |
| Please pray the tricuspid valve between right atrium and right ventricle does not ever leak | May 4, 2010 |
| Please pray he is strong enough to feed from bottles mommy has been working hard to prepare for him | May 16, 2010 |
| Please pray he is able to feed without a feeding tube | May 28, 2010 |
| Please pray he can be held by his family lots as he recovers | May 4, 2010 |
Again, thank you to all of you.
Lots of Love from The Torrens
Thank you for sharing the specifics. We know God is involved in all the details. We are praying for all of this.
Be strong in the Lord, he is Glorious and he loves you so much.
Love,
Christine