My planned post for today was the pictures of Aubrie Kate's party, but our weekend had an unexpected event and it needs the attention right now.
Friday afternoon, I got a call from Todd saying his mom had fallen at work, hit her head, and was on the way to the ER and he was going there too.
Thinking in my positive way, I assumed all would be good after a few test.
I was wrong. It turns out Todd's mom had a stroke and was bleeding inside her brain, so deep that they couldn't do surgery.
So they admitted her to ICU, began pumping her with medications (hoping to dry out the bleeding etc.)
Saturday, we went on with Aubrie's party, bc grandmomma would not have wanted her to miss out.
Sunday we went to see her at the hospital and it was a rough day. She has some movement on her left side (where as on Friday she did not) but its not a lot of movement, she had to have a test done to see about her "swallowing" bc when she does she coughs...she has had CT Scans, but no MRI's yet...(bc get this, there isn't anyone there on Sundays that can do them!!!)
All in all its alot of questions, without a lot of answers. They moved her to a private room when she needs full care. I am baffled by alot of the decisions being made.
Madyson is having a real hard time with this. She went with us to see grandmomma yesterday and it was just too much for her, we had to leave.
Please pray for us as we work through this journey. Prayers for healing would be appreciated as well.
praying sarah!!!
ReplyDeleteLots of prayers for all of you! To give you some good news, her coughing when swallowing is pretty common shortly after a stroke. Many of the patients I saw slowly improved each day, and they'll continue to give her swallowing evaluations until there's no coughing/choking. It just helps determine what type of diet she should be on while in the hospital, b/c they're trying to be very careful not to get food or other liquids into her lungs.
ReplyDeleteI know it's terribly frustrating, but being moved to a private room is a very, very good sign of how well they think she will continue to progress!
Again, lots of prayers coming your way! Poor sweet Madyson...All those machines & tubes are terrifying to kids :(