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Dec. 29th, 2011 11:12 pmGood news and bad news. *sigh*
Good news first. My nephew's surgery went well, and although he's still pretty out of it, he has responded to simple commands - wiggle your eyebrow, lift your finger. It looks as if he'll make a full recovery. Luckily he had a state-of-the-art helmet. It was expensive, but worth every penny! They say he'll need another surgery in about three months, but he'll eventually be just fine.
Bad news is Randi. She was moved to the ICU tonight. She has blood clots - a large one in her leg, several on her lungs, and one moving through her heart. It's very dangerous and very serious, and they've assigned her to a pulmonary specialist and are going to be monitoring her closely. On the upside, she's been getting blood thinner already, and they are still talking about sending her to the rehab center, so I'm trying hard not to freak out and panic. The rehab doctors are a bit freaked out, because until the day before yesterday, she had no symptoms, so they were shocked when they found the clots. Thank God they're thorough, because they ran the cardiogram just as a precaution, not because they believed they'd find anything really. They also said that they believe some of the clots in the lungs have been there for a long time. It's pretty amazing that she's still alive, and that freaks ME out.
Good news first. My nephew's surgery went well, and although he's still pretty out of it, he has responded to simple commands - wiggle your eyebrow, lift your finger. It looks as if he'll make a full recovery. Luckily he had a state-of-the-art helmet. It was expensive, but worth every penny! They say he'll need another surgery in about three months, but he'll eventually be just fine.
Bad news is Randi. She was moved to the ICU tonight. She has blood clots - a large one in her leg, several on her lungs, and one moving through her heart. It's very dangerous and very serious, and they've assigned her to a pulmonary specialist and are going to be monitoring her closely. On the upside, she's been getting blood thinner already, and they are still talking about sending her to the rehab center, so I'm trying hard not to freak out and panic. The rehab doctors are a bit freaked out, because until the day before yesterday, she had no symptoms, so they were shocked when they found the clots. Thank God they're thorough, because they ran the cardiogram just as a precaution, not because they believed they'd find anything really. They also said that they believe some of the clots in the lungs have been there for a long time. It's pretty amazing that she's still alive, and that freaks ME out.