Day 2

Sorry don’t have time to write too much.  Yesterday started off as expected.  Hannah was groggy from the morphine she was getting, but we could wake her when needed to have her do things like move her hands, feet, see and recognize people in the room.  Yesterday afternoon, though, just prior to moving her out of the ICU to her PEMU room, we couldn’t wake her.  After trying for a while, she was taken for a CT scan.  The CT scan showed bleeding/clotting around where the grid was placed that was putting pressure on her brain (which caused the unconsciousness) .  They quickly took her back to the O.R. room for surgery to relieve the pressure and stop the bleeding.  Surgery took about two hours and they did find a big clot on the surface of the grid.  They did not find an actual vein that was bleeding and could be stopped, they just described her as very “oozy”.  They did do some extra things this time to help stop the bleeding like putting a mesh over the grid, giving her vitamin K and using more paste to help stop the “oozing.” 

A CT Scan a couple hours after the surgery looked good, and she is going to have another scan this morning.  They also needed to give her a unit of blood.  They did keep her sedated and incubated all night.

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