Worried about Kate

[AnotherFairportfan]

Sitting here in the ER corridor, waiting for Kate to come back from aCAT scan.

I'm afraid she's having a stroke.

Typing on the phone is a pain, so the only updates i'll be posting until i get to the computer will be if things get worse.

[Dave]

Oh man... not good...

I hope very much that it's something transient... blood vessel spasm or something like that.

My thoughts will be with you both. Hang in there and keep us advised...

[Typeminer]

Oh, gods. Surely hope it's something else.

Good you got her to the ER. Wishing you both luck and strength, man.

[AnotherFairportfan]

Looks like a stroke. Her right arm, leg and side of her face come in and out of function; she can't swallow.

Admitting to ICU.

[Dave]

[Atomic]

Oh dear! Prayers and condolences for the work ahead. May all turn out well, and soon!

[AnotherFairportfan]

Fuller:

At lunchfime, Kate found herself unable to use her right hand for a minute or so.

On the way back to work, she experienced some difficulties with her right leg.

I suggested a trip fo the Emergency Room, but she saidd she was all right,. She did, however, schedule a 9 AM appointment with Dr Fogarty for tomorrow. (Well, today, since it's past midnight.)

However, long about 8 PM while i was out running an errand, it came back more strongly, and, in addition she lost control of the right side of her face.

By the time i was home, ten .inutes later, she was again back to seeming normal, but she announced we were going to the ER.

It's now one AM, and she has been losing and regaining right-side function, with the losses seeming (to me) to be getting worse.

They've been periodically testing her memory, cognition and orientation, and she's not losing any of that (Yet, anyway, the pessimistic side of me interjects), but even when she has control of her face and can speak relatively clearly, she is unable to swallow water.

I'm waiting outside the ICU for them to finish admitting her.

Trying to stay positive, but it's hard.

Bulletins as i know anything more.

[Dave]

Hard indeed... having been there recently, I've got a poignant appreciation for what your brain is probably putting you through right now, and you've got all of my sympathies! Hope they can find something that can be addressed directly eg with a clot-buster of some sort.

Wondering if this might have any connection to the auto accident a couple of weeks ago... maybe a small clot formed in a vein and has broken free and decided to wander?

[AnotherFairportfan]

Hard indeed... having been there recently, I've got a poignant appreciation for what your brain is probably putting you through right now, and you've got all of my sympathies! Hope they can find something that can be addressed directly eg with a clot-buster of some sort.

Wondering if this might have any connection to the auto accident a couple of weeks ago... maybe a small clot formed in a vein and has broken free and decided to wander?

Maybe. I might bring it up, though i doubt it; she was shaken but not even bruised.

[Just Old Al]

Oh, gods.

White light and the most hopeful attitude I can manage from this end - you both will be in my thoughts.

[AnotherFairportfan]

I'm back at the ICU; i've been running errands since10:30.

Kate seems better - speaking clearly, though her right arm and leg are pretty well out of action.

They're moving her to a regular room tomorrow; they plan to run another CAT scan to see if there was an actual clot.

She says that the doctors are hopeful that she can regain most of ber functionality with therapy.

[Typeminer]

That's something, at least. They are a lot better at this than they used to be.

[jwhouk]

Considering my dad had two mini-strokes in the last year, but didn't lose any motor function, it's a sign that they can do wonders with this stuff.

Prayers for you and Kate, FPF.

[TazManiac]

I'm sorry to just be catching up to whats been going on, Love & Strength to and yours.

(I recognize, personally, that half my medical knowledge seems to have been learned by watching TV shows over the years, but still...)

I'm find the coming and going (and one expects coming back) part of her symptoms to be somewhat encouraging, going forward.

As a fictitious Doctor on the Internet, I suggest, nay prescribe unscheduled & gentle foot rubs as needed.

[Catawampus]

I hope that things are going as well as things can go considering how things have gone.

[chicgeek]

My thoughts are with you both, and wishes for a swift recovery.

[AnotherFairportfan]

As soon as the insurance dedigitates, they're moving her to a rehab facility for three or four weeks.

She has minimal use of the leg, though not the arm, and she sh'e speaking pretty well, though the right corner of her mouth still droops a little.

[TazManiac]

Beaming good stuff your way, her way too.

Oh, & be sure and take a periodic reset time.
Even just sitting still, for a little while, in a quiet place, works wonders.

(edit for typos & whole missing words)

[AnotherFairportfan]

They moved her to rehab today.

Yay.

[TazManiac]

Yay.

What he said.

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