Our Grim Situation

[Sissy]

May God hold you both in his arms and give
you strenght.
God Bless

 

[bluey]

Wow..just saw this today Ninja...your family is in my prayers...

 

[maplesky7]

a thought I had yesterday, ninja poodles....i came across a tetnus article...some of the symptoms you describe are on there...the having trouble walking....

just wandered if your hubby had gotten an injury perhaps that could have carried the tetnus (what is it? a bacteria?) and if he wasn't up to date on his tetnus shots...which i know, i'm not...if adults are supposed to renew it every 10 yr. i think the article said....if perhaps that could be a possibility?

Sure hope and pray for some answers soon, in God we trust and keep our faith for all our days come rain or shine. Amen.

Love in Christ,
Gretch

 

[Cetawin]

I am so sorry you are going through. Let me tell you that there may be a simply explanation. All of the things you have said about your Alex I experienced PLUS many other with my DH in 2003. Have they ruled out a mild stroke is my first question? My second question to you is...is it possible he suffered a head injury or hit his head really hard and you are not aware of it?

My DH suffered a closed head injury or TBI. His symptoms were the same plus he could not not feed himself, toilet without assistance, dress himself etc etc. and his short term memory was grossly retarded. He could not remember what was said to him 20 minutes previous to asking him about it.

It took constant monitoring, care on my part, helping him and working my own sort of rehab on him to get him beyond it. We are now some 6 years past the accident and his short term memory can still give him fits but he can function and care for himself.

Through all of this...his CT Scans and Brain MRIs were clean with no visiable or labratory evidence of physical brain damage.

Think of the brain as the yolk of the egg. if you shake it really hard, the yolk seperates and intermixes with the white...if you leave the egg alone, the yolk with reform itself into a solid mass....that could take an hour, a day, a month for the brain to "resettle" itself unless it is so damaged that it cannot heal itself, so to speak.

If I can be of any help or assistance, I will tell you anything I learned and what I know from dealing with my DH. I will put you and Alex in my prayers. Just please...keep faith, no matter how hard it is.