When Briar got back from the hospital after the worst seizure of her life, Lateishia knew her daughter was still very sick. The day after her discharge from the hospital, her suspicions were confirmed by an urgent call from Tristani-Firouzi.
The loop recorder confirmed that Briar’s heart had stopped beating for over two minutes. “I told Lateishia, ‘Pack your bags,’” Tristani-Firouzi says. “‘You’ve got to come into the hospital, and we’re going to admit you, and we have to put a pacemaker in. Come right now, this is too dangerous to be sitting around at home.’”
With Briar in tow, Lateishia made the three-hour drive up to Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital that evening. It was a long, terrifying night. But the next morning, Reilly Hobbs, MD, a pediatric heart surgeon at University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital, showed up. He checked in on Briar and Lateishia to reassure them before he even clocked in.