Good morning folks 
Sue was okay yesterday. Something different is going on that I think is good but way ahead of the curve. When I got there yesterday morning she was pain free, happy and wide awake. A few hours later, the headache returned. she said it wasn't as bad as normal, but was still holding her head. The nurse saw it on the monitor and gave her some tylenol but it didn't seem to help. According to all the literature she shouldn't be pain free yet. Both the nurse and the doc said it's not normal for patients to be pain free yet, but that it's a good sign.
She's going in for another Angiogram this morning in hopes that they can find where the leak was and do what ever repair is necessary. In preparation, they've increased her BP to close to 200. I went over the images with her neuro yesterday. I think I surprised him a bit. I needed him to show me the arteries so I knew what I was looking for/at and then we went on from there. When I asked him to zoom in on an area and then rotate 90* his eyes got pretty big. Even though I've never used Computed Tomography to look at a human brain, I've spent 13+ years using it to slice and dice passenger luggage looking for bombs (I spent 13+years developing training for the TSA). So in a way, my career has served me well for this situation. They will be looking closely at the spot I was concerned with during the angiogram. It's the place where the two arteries coming into the back of the brain join and become a single arterie.
Sue was okay yesterday. Something different is going on that I think is good but way ahead of the curve. When I got there yesterday morning she was pain free, happy and wide awake. A few hours later, the headache returned. she said it wasn't as bad as normal, but was still holding her head. The nurse saw it on the monitor and gave her some tylenol but it didn't seem to help. According to all the literature she shouldn't be pain free yet. Both the nurse and the doc said it's not normal for patients to be pain free yet, but that it's a good sign.
She's going in for another Angiogram this morning in hopes that they can find where the leak was and do what ever repair is necessary. In preparation, they've increased her BP to close to 200. I went over the images with her neuro yesterday. I think I surprised him a bit. I needed him to show me the arteries so I knew what I was looking for/at and then we went on from there. When I asked him to zoom in on an area and then rotate 90* his eyes got pretty big. Even though I've never used Computed Tomography to look at a human brain, I've spent 13+ years using it to slice and dice passenger luggage looking for bombs (I spent 13+years developing training for the TSA). So in a way, my career has served me well for this situation. They will be looking closely at the spot I was concerned with during the angiogram. It's the place where the two arteries coming into the back of the brain join and become a single arterie.
