Paced back to 'Normal'

The rhythm specialist showed up around 1 this afternoon, Michael had been on the Sotalol for about 3 hours. They said this was the peak time to try to get him out of the arrhythmia. They started hooking everything up and kind of explained what was going on and how they were trying to fix it. To pace him out of the rhythm, they try to put an extra beat between the irregular beats. I don't really understand how it all works but they were able to get him out of the arrhythmia within a couple minutes.  It took them about 40 minutes to do it yesterday, but part of that was setting him up with the wires and breathing tunbes. Today he already had all that stuff in. The doctor showed up, and we both headed to the hall. Bryt had to use the restroom so it took us a couple minutes to get out of the ICU. Right when we got out the door one of the doctors was walked passed us and told us they were done. It only took them like 3 minutes to get rid of the flutter. We were both shocked, what a relief.

We had to go get lunch, so we went out for a little bit. When we got back to his room he still had the pacing wires in and the pacing machine was still next to him. His heart rate is all over the place, from 100 to 140.  The nurses said this is better than beating so fast consistently. They said it's too early to tell what will happen, he might just have an irregular heart beat from now on. They don't know if the Sotalol will have a negative effect yet, so the next 24 hours will be monitored closely. I feel worried about him, I don't like his heart rate being all over like this, that is how it was before he turned all purple yesterday.  I trust the doctors and I know they are trying to figure out the best balance for him. They say he only likes his stew a certain way and they just have to find the recipe. 

I am having a hard time seeing him hooked up to all of this stuff again, I just want him to be ok and on the path home again. I know he is not comfortable with all this crap hooked up to him. I just want to see that little guy I saw last week. I keep asking questions that no one can answer. All we can do is be patient and see what happens.