After Surgery and a Little into the Future...

After surgery it seemed like she was having some localized seizures so they gave her a strong seizure medication. During her neurological tests early this morning she was not reacting with her right hand and barely reacting with pain to her right leg which is a decrease in movement from the last few days. During the early morning CT Scan it looks like she has been suffering mini strokes (no cause yet) so they did an EEG this morning which we will get results in a few days.

She has been off sedation since before the neurological test and a couple hours after her original neurological assessment her interventional neurologist came in and woke her up She opened her eyes (with help) and focused on him. He also asked her to move her right arm and she did!!! She only wiggled her right toes but she kept lifting her right arm over and over! I think she was giving him some attitude. There is no movement still on the left side but they don't expect that for a few days.

Right now they are looking at the EEG to hopefully give us a reason for the mini strokes as well as performing a TEE tomorrow on her heart.  They are assuming she is throwing some clots from somewhere which is probably causing these mini strokes.

During surgery last night, they took some tissue samples from the blood mass area to rule out some potential causes.  She has had a melanoma, so we hope that hasn't metastasized to her brain.

All doctors are very optimistic to her recovery but have warned us it will take lots of time. They put us a little at ease when they told us to expect a roller coaster of events and emotions. Which we are clearly going through. Seems like we are going backwards but the doctors assure us we are moving forward.

Ron Dickie, Denise's Dad, visiting today. 

According to Wikipedia:

EGG = Electroencephalography (EEG) is the recording of electrical activity along the scalp.

TEE = A transesophageal echocardiogram, or TEE, is an alternative way to perform an echocardiogram. A specialized probe containing an ultrasound transducer at its tip is passed into the patient's esophagus. This allows image and Doppler evaluation which can be recorded.