"You know the book "If you give a mouse a cookie" that's a good way to describe my day.
My therapist was concerned about my headache, neck pain and 3 fingers not working so she got a nurse.
The nurse was concerned so she got a doctor.
The doctor was concerned so she called a 'Code stroke' on me.
A 'code stroke' sends a handful of people running to your room and you getting raced to the ER.
After a 40 minute MRI it was confirmed I did NOT have another stroke.
The dissection looks a little worse then last week and we found out it's about 2" long. The artery is so extremely narrow, they couldn't even see it on the MRI without contrast.
We also learned that the benign tumor found on the top of my head that we lovingly refer to as my "brain wort" is about the size of a small marble. It will continue to be monitored and hopefully it grows so slowly or not at all that it stays as my "brain wort" for the next 70 years and never gives me grief!
I was sent home with instructions to come back right away at any new or worsening symptoms and was also given some strong pain meds.
They don't want to place stents because of the length of the dissection so my bodies job is to heal, heal, heal!
I've been told to take it even easier then I have been. And so I can watch these 4 precious kids of ours grow older and have kids of their own I am listening.
I keep trying to see the blessings and lessons learned from this trial and both lists keep growing. We have so much to be thankful for. Tonight I'm so incredibly thankful to be home with my family and for all your prayers and love."
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