Mom is doing pretty well. She had her eyes open for almost an hour today.
She is bit more responsive and looks good.
The issues we need to be concerned with are her fever, the spasms and using her left side.
Her fever fluctiuates between 102 and 98 throughout the day. When her temperature is 98, Mom communicates and moves around very well. Anything over 100 and she is basically asleep. The doctors are still not sure what is causing the fever. They have done several cultures to check for bacteria and have not found anything. They ran another set of cultures today.
We still have another week and a half to worry about brain spasms. These can cause severe damage and occur in a significant number of patients. The best I can explain them is to say that they are like a muscle cramp in an artery. The cramping causes the artery to close, thus shutting off blood flow. Mom has already had two minor ones operated on. They monitor her daily for other spasms.
Finally, she definately favors her right side. We are trying to force her to use the left more. The doctors believe this is because of the swelling on the right side of the brain.
Keep these things in prayer.
Also, met a woman this afternoon whose 25 year old grandson was involved in an accident while trying to stop an intoxicated friend from diving. Somehow, the young man fell very hard on his skull and suffered lots of damage. He is moving all his extremities, but they had to open his skull to allow his brain to swell. Keep Justin and his family in your prayers.
Love,
Stephen
Sunday, February 15, 2009
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Stephen and Aunt Mona,
ReplyDeleteI love you both and you are in my thoughts always.
Wishing for the best and will see you soon.
Love,
Becky
Dear Stephen and Sonya...
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing such an awesome job of keeping us informed and letting us know how to pray. We are confident along with you and the others that the Lord's hand is on your Mom. We should expect great things, we have a GREAT God and Savior!! "Healing is the Children's bread." God is good ALL THE TIME!!
Love,
Mikki & David