Recovery is not going as smoothly as planned. Lyla is having a difficult time urinating to get rid of all her excess fluids, and her high heart rate has not settled down (+/- 190-200 bpm). Because of this, she's been connected to an external pacemaker to control her rate and help get her heart back in rhythm, and is on a lasix drip to help her urinate.
Having "
JET" is not uncommon after heart surgery, so hopefully she will pace out of it over the next couple of days. She is getting constant attention from nurses, her cardiologist, and even her surgeon,and the feeling is very optimistic that things will work out ok, she's just making her own pathway to recovery.
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