My dad went into the hospital last Wednesday with pancreatitis. Mickey and I went to MS Saturday and brought my mom back with us. My dad is her main caregiver and he was worried about her being at home alone. They were suposed to remove his gallblader today but canceled the surgery. He had a stroke during the night.
This is as much as I can remember from talking to the neurosurgeon this afternoon:
Almost all of the bleeding went into the areas of the brain that usually hold spinal fluid - a little into the brain itself - the doc said this was better than if the blood had all gone into the brain. The drain for spinal fluid is clogged so he was having a lot of pressure on his brain. The doc said the clog will clear itself after a few days but they needed to put in a drain to remove the blood and let it be replaced with clear spinal fluid.
He said that the rupture of the vessel was caused from (in order of probability) high blood pressure, a tiny tumor that didn't show on the ct scan, a congenital deformity, an anurism (some of these things may not be spelled correctly - sorry, I'm not that good at spelling medical things).
The nurse called me before she went home tonight and said that he came through the procedure to insert the drain well. His vital signs look good. We will just have to wait to see if he will get better and how much damage has been done to his brain.
We are taking my mom back to MS tomorrow and will be staying an unknown amount of time. My brother and his wife are flying in from Canada tomorrow also.
Please keep my dad in your thoughts and prayers and send hiim healing energy. He needs to recover from this - I am not ready for him to go.
I don't know when I will be able to get back online so it may be a while but I will post an update when I can.
Thanks in advance.
Sandy and Mickey (RealMickeysGirl and RealMickey)