Eian Long, 16, is being praised by his doctors for successfully staying awake during the entirety of a three-hour heart surgery as they fed wires into his heart to track down the source of his arrhythmia, or abnormal heartbeat. It is a search that can be like finding a needle in a haystack.
Eian's parents, Brandon and Price Long, took him to what they thought would be a routine, annual check-in with his pediatrician when he was 15 years old.
There were no obvious signs leading up to this point that something was wrong with Eian's heart as he was seemingly perfectly healthy.
Price said after the diagnosis, it made more sense as to why Eian was at times lethargic and unable to participate in physical activity for a long period of time.
After medications failed to solve the problem, Eian and his family opted for a surgical procedure as a last resort.
"We said, 'If you do this awake, it will really help them out.' And he was like, 'OK, let's do it,'" said Brandon, Eian's father.
Eian's medical team even had him watching his favorite movies during the procedure to keep him distracted. "What can happen is these extra beats can cause the heart muscle to weaken, to not be able to squeeze as effectively as it should," said Ceresnak.
"I think if that wasn't picked up on the earlier side he could have come to the point where he was in heart failure and had other arrhythmias and other challenges," said Ceresnak.
"After, I asked him, 'Buddy how do you feel?' He sat there, took inventory of his body, put his hand to his heart, and said, 'My heart is slow,'" said Price.Now, more than six months post-op, Eian's heart has had no irregular or extra heartbeats since.
Eian's family and medical team are confident he will make a full recovery.
"Once a year I would encourage parents to make it a point, take your child in. They can be healthy as a horse. Some of these things can be very silent. That's the point of preventative care," said Price.
For more information about Eian's procedure, electrophysiology and arrhythmia pediatric care, click this link.
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