3-16-2005

Aliyah has had no heart arrythymias since Monday night at around 9:00 p.m.

This is great news and they have her on several medications now. Some to control heart rythym, some to help her heart squeeze better, etc. Perhaps this evening she can get up and walk to the nurse's station and back to her room. We have had meetings with the heart transplant doctors just to get us prepared in the event that she might need one and she still may need a defibrillator put in. She is doing better in some ways but the doctor's still don't know whether her heart function will ever get better. It is really a waiting and watching type thing since she has no known history. I'm sure that she will feel better when she can get out of her room for a little while. She probably won't have another echocardiogram until tomorrow or the next day and they can tell by that whether her heart squeeze is any better or worse. That's about all the news for now. Thanks for praying!!