{"id":1247,"date":"2013-11-08T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2013-11-08T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T17:36:31","slug":"gameplan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/08\/gameplan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gameplan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry but it seems like the post I wrote last night didn&#8217;t get published properly until just now.\u00a0 Let me catch you up on the latest from the doctors.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve decided <em>not<\/em> to do the transesophageal echocardiogram and cardioversion today.\u00a0 The rationale is (I believe) that the risk of going home while in arrhythmia is that the fluid build-up could get worse, but they trust us to pay close attention to Angie&#8217;s weight and fluid intake\/output.\u00a0 We may go home and have to come back in within a couple days, but if things continue as they have the last couple days, we should be good.\u00a0 They want to keep her here for another day or two while they figure out the right balance of diuretic medication to get the fluid retention to a safe level (not too dry, not too wet).\u00a0 They also want to give the medication a chance to cardiovert her chemically.\u00a0 Everyone recognizes that it is a very slim chance, but it has been known to happen.<\/p>\n<p>So, when we go home our main objectives will be to monitor Angie&#8217;s fluid build-up &amp; breathing and to keep her anti-coagulated to dissolve any clot that may have formed in her atrium and the clot that is in her ventricle.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll also have her on her Sotalol, the medicine for the arrhythmia, which <em>might<\/em> cardiovert her chemically, but if not, when we come back in a couple weeks the drug will help her stay out of arrhythmia.\u00a0 There is always a chance after a cardioversion that you&#8217;ll get right back into bad rhythms.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I have to hurry off to breakfast before they stop serving it.\u00a0 Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sorry but it seems like the post I wrote last night didn&#8217;t get published properly until just now.\u00a0 Let me catch you up on the latest from the doctors.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve decided not to do the transesophageal echocardiogram and cardioversion today.\u00a0 The rationale is (I believe) that the risk of going home while in arrhythmia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[21,8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8WrW-gameplan","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1248,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}