Brain Problems

OK, after my last post I've had several people ask where the I.C.U. and my mom came from. I just threw that in out of the blue.

Apparently in my foggy state over the weekend I dreamed that I had already posted something about that so Tuesday I was just updating briefly.

So, here's the scoop. Mom's had some problems with heavy bleeding from her sinus/nose lately. They've been in to the ENT and were working on it. But Friday evening she had another episode and dad got worried and called 911. They came, mom was a bit non-responsive to their questions, so they took her to St. Lukes down by the plaza, thinking there was a possibility of a stroke.

Well her hemoglobin was way low but they admitted her to I.C.U. to check out the remaining possibility of a stroke. Over the weekend they got the bleeding under control, did some preliminary tests and Monday and Tuesday have been doing more tests. It does appear she's had a recent stroke, presumably Friday night, but all thing considered she's doing pretty well. The stroke was on the left side of her brain -- effecting the right side of her body -- but she's eating with her right hand, her right leg is just as strong as her left, but her speech is a bit more garbled than it was before.

They're going to get started tomorrow working on her nose/sinus to get a long-term solution to the bleeding and get a gameplan for therapy to get her back to where she was before Friday.

That's the update -- with additional details -- that I THOUGHT I had posted over the weekend. So now things might make a little more sense.

I did get down to visit her this evening. Tomorrow is when my Chemo Drugs usually kick in so I should feel like doo-doo the rest of the week and won't be up to going to see mom. I did get to where my surgical mask, though. I'm sure everyone there thought I was a surgeon, don't you think? I was a little surprised no one stopped to ask me surgical-type questions. Maybe my jeans, tennis shoes and regular shirt had something to do with it.