April 24th - Scary day yesterday. Sarah was having terrible headaches. Long story short... she had brain hemorrhage. Everything looks OK now after many tests, no aneurysm. Long few weeks recovery ahead. We are at St. Frances for awhile. Prayers are welcome.
April 25th - Today's CT scan showed the stroke was still bleeding. This has made her worse today. Extremely tough to see her this way today. Actually acting like a stroke victim was hard to see. Talking and moving VERY slow. Still hopeful for fast healing and complete recovery. They are going to do another CT scan tomorrow morning. Looks like a long road ahead of us
April 26th - First of all, thank you to everyone for all the wonderful comments and outpouring that has been shown. Just seeing all the posts, blogs and comments has been a blessing to us. Sarah had the angiogram this morning, which is a CT scan with dye to see contrast. A specialist found a clot yesterday evening. He couldn't get all the way to the clot to see if he could remove it carefully. It did show that the bleeding didn't get worse from yesterday. Also, showed a little blood flow around the clot which is good. Best case scenario he thinks that with a weak blood thinner for a couple weeks, she might get out of Neuro Critical Care and to a regular ICU room. Then maybe a few more weeks she can come home. That is if the blood dissipate and bleeding has stopped. She will be on stronger thinner for 6 months after that and have to get a MRI in a few months when the blood is gone to see if they can find a cause to all of this. That is best case probably. She is still in an extremely dangerous situation as more problems can arise at any time. Her vision is very bad right now. Hopefully in 6 months and with therapy it will all return. Thank you again everyone. God Bless, Nic.
April 28th - Sarah had a great day yesterday. She was up and bubbly and got to see and hold Parker for the first time in 6 days. Might have worn her out. Today she is a little sore and not feeling quite as well. Considering the situation she is still doing great. Thank you again for everything.
April 29th - Wednesday night was rough for Sarah. She had a terrible headache, so they did a CT scan and a MRI. They both came back pretty good, and after sleeping most of the day, she had a good evening tonight.
April 30th - Sarah's feeling pretty good today. They tried to put a pic line in today. It took like 5 times to get it in. When they did, her arm started to spasm. They said she must have a cluster of nerves wrapped around the vein or something. Very painful. Then they did the x-ray to check but it went up by her ear instead of going to the heart, so they had to do it again. This evening she was feeling well.
May 1st - Sarah had some headaches overnight again last night. She thinks pressure builds when she lays down. Today has been great though. Got to see the boys again and has felt great. Taking nap now. If she feels like this, she would love to have people up to see her. If you want to call before coming up, I'll let you know how she's doing. Thank you everyone!
May 2nd - Once again, Sarah had a night full of headaches and nausea. She got up and around and didn't eat much. Took a morning nap and felt better. She actually ate some chicken for lunch then took an afternoon nap. After that she felt great, which was good because she had lots of wonderful visitors she was happy to see. She even asked for Chipolte burrito bowl!!
May 3rd - A night with little headache pain!!! She slept 5 hours without waking up last night. Today was pretty good headache wise, but now she is having a lot of pain with a pinched nerve in her back. Had CT scan this morning, but it didn't show much change. Started Coumadin today. Doctors are thinking that if she improves, we could be out of here in a week! Vision my never improve or be normal in 6 months, just not sure.
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