Spoke with Mom's nurse this evening. The pressure on her brain is not staying as low as they would like.
We need this pressure to go down or they may be forced to perform an invasive surgery on her skull.
I spoke with my friend Mason who is a doctor at Memorial Hermann and he explained it this way when I asked him how worried I should be that her swelling has not gone down.
"Anytime you have a patient in ICU, you are concerned about them. Given the choice between brain pressure and no pressure obviously we would rather have none. The fact that there is still pressure is a cause for concern, but this is not the end of the world. Your mom's recovery is not an F, but it is not quite an A either. Depending on the brain scans, we are probably looking at B."
Stephen
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Hoping she's at an A+ soon. We are keeping up the prayers and have you guys on prayer lists at work and church-there are lots of people on your mom's prayer army!! We love you all! The Manns and Benoits
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ReplyDeleteStephen, could you post the address to the hospital? Love, Julia
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