I have my I Phone. There is wireless at the hospital so can email.Cannot text or call (my IPhone is G4 but not G4S. )
Will set it to ring w email if I don't fall asleep while doing it. (When do u think the last time I stayed up all night was?)
And:
The Top o the Mornin' to Ya!
I have a shamrock pin on. Dad's is on his hospital jammies. Now just what do ya tink the Ticos tink o' dat?
Love to all
Love to all
as of now, there has been performed a ct of his head and a ct of his chest. the ct of his chest to look for a blood clot in his lungs, and not, I am inclined to imagine, likely to show one. ct of the head is to determine if they can see what caused the symptoms. the first question is whether there is a bleed in his brain. the ct should answer that and, given his symptoms, I hope and rather expect that this will be negative, but it is important to know for sure because management is different if it is a bleed. Given his symptoms, the other thing to look for is an ischemic stroke (or in his case mini-stroke bc it did not last for more than 24 hours). ct may or may not show this even if it was there. if there is no bleed, I would be fairly confident that an ischemic event was the cause of his symptoms. an ischemic stroke, in comparison with a bleeding stroke, is one were for some reason (usually a blood clot that either is thrown from somewhere else--embolic-- or forms in place) there is a blockage of blood flow to the brain. the part of the brain that is affected then stops working and you lose whatever it controls. in his case, it would be a stroke in the left side of the brain, the part that controls speech and the part that controls the right hand. however, a cerebellar stroke is also possible as he had some other symptoms that may be compatible with that. so the ct of the head is a branch point for management. at the same time, there is an investigation underway to find out what the source of the presumed clot was. that is, they are checking his carotid arteries to see if they are flecking off bits of junk and htey are checking his heart via ultrasound to see if he has a clot lurking there, that could then break off another embolism and cause another stroke. these results are what we would look for here. they are not back yet. things go slowly there. the important thing is that his symptoms are gone, which means this investigation is designed to, if possible, find out what happened, and, more to the point, see what we may need to do to prevent another event. I hope all of this is clear. best of st. pats to you all. we had guiness, corned beef, cabbage, and soda bread. mostly butter and salt. yum.
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