Thanks everyone. She is hanging in there. She still has two holes drilled in her head that is draining blood and spinal fluid out of her head, so now we are in phase two (out of what seems like a hundred). Vaso Spasm. From what I understand from these 1000 doctors and nurses, her veins and arteries are now in danger of wigging out due to the ruptured aneurysm. Her nurse said it's to be expected. There is now a chance of stroke. In ten days or so she will be past this hurdle and onto the next.
Today, more CT scans, more poking and prodding and more sleep for her. She recognizes me but is saying some weird stuff like last night we were watching TV and an ad for Selsum Blue came on and she remarked to me that "wouldn't that make a nice gift?". But she does smile at me and understand what I ask her and says sensible things back to me most of the time. In fact I told her she looked like one of my fish tanks with all the tubes going in and out of her and she thought that was pretty funny.
I am finally going to speak to the surgeons today and get a full update on her status and progress. Although I understand how busy they are out there saving lives I wish they would remember to update me on all the frightening things they told me on Thursday night when we arrived. I'm beginning to take comfort in the "no news is good news" philosophy.
For those of you that I have talked to on the phone off the MFT board - please feel free to call me - I just sit around here most of the time and it really helps to talk to people other than my family. I have my cell phone attached to my body like a door to the outside world
Well, I'm off to check emails. I get to go online a little bit here; they have a "family research room" with computers and when she's having tests it sure beats sitting in the waiting room.
Thanks again for everyone's thoughts. Please keep praying - we have a long road ahead of us. And go tell your mom you love them. You can NEVER say it enough -
TRUST ME.
