We mistook Daniel's lethargy and his other symptoms as a cold, which ended up really being something more serious relating to his heart. What it really was, was his heart was starting to malfunction so all his fluids were starting to get backed up in him.
He had no fever and he was pale with coughing and a runny nose, so we thought it was just a virus or a cold. But when he complained that his heart was beating really quickly, we got worried. I tried to take his pulse, but I couldn't, so I drove him to the ER.
When we brought him to the emergency room, the nurse tried to use the heart rate machine and it couldn't read him, then the nurse tried to manually count his heart rate and couldn't do that either. So he was immediately brought to the trauma unit and injected him with many doses of drugs in order to help slow down his heart rate (as it was beating over 200 beats/minute). When that didn't work, they wheeled him to the ICU to jolt his heart to reset it.
He's fine and stable for the meantime, but they're going to keep him there to monitor him in case if he relapses. The doctors are also 'hmm'ing and 'ahh'ing him and thinking what to do about his situation. They're contemplating about putting a pacemaker in him, but they're still thinking about it.
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He had no fever and he was pale with coughing and a runny nose, so we thought it was just a virus or a cold. But when he complained that his heart was beating really quickly, we got worried. I tried to take his pulse, but I couldn't, so I drove him to the ER.
When we brought him to the emergency room, the nurse tried to use the heart rate machine and it couldn't read him, then the nurse tried to manually count his heart rate and couldn't do that either. So he was immediately brought to the trauma unit and injected him with many doses of drugs in order to help slow down his heart rate (as it was beating over 200 beats/minute). When that didn't work, they wheeled him to the ICU to jolt his heart to reset it.
He's fine and stable for the meantime, but they're going to keep him there to monitor him in case if he relapses. The doctors are also 'hmm'ing and 'ahh'ing him and thinking what to do about his situation. They're contemplating about putting a pacemaker in him, but they're still thinking about it.