June 28th Dad update

The next posts will be copied in their entirety from my Facebook Notes that I wrote on the dates in the titles.

June 28th Dad update
The headache that started yesterday was caused by swelling in my dad's brain and is therefore pushing on nerves and other "brain stuff." In the CT scan yesterday they found blood and thought that he maybe had a brain bleed but after an MRI last night and a visit with the surgeon they now believe that it is old blood. They had talked about draining the area but that is on hold for now.

They took him off the morphine pump because the surgeon didn't want that to mask his pain.They are giving him mega doses of steroids to try and reduce the swelling so that it doesn't hurt him anymore. They took him off the blood thinners for his blood clot in his leg and are just monitoring that for now.

He also has low sodium and a high white blood count so that adds another doctor for him - infectious disease specialist. So he now has a neurologist, a neurosurgeon (who is NOT Dr. McDreamy by the way - very disappointing LOL ), an infectious disease specialist, a family doctor and an oncologist. He is on the neuro acute floor at Sanford and is lucky to have some fabulous nurses and techs as well. His favorite tech from last time is there today and checking in on him.

They are going to do another MRI to check the fluid levels either later today or tomorrow. I was up there earlier today and he was kind of out of it. Due to the pressure in his head he is having trouble getting words out and moving the right side of his body.

So...lots going on. I'll update more when I can but today was WAAAAY too long to put in a status update :)

He had lost a lot of his speech by this point and was struggling to get his words out. They were THERE they just wouldn't come out.