Mom spiked a fever in the night again, so they gave her some tylenol to help it. In the morning they did a test to check the level of vasospasms she was having and it was extremely high. If the spasm number gets high the vessel can close and cause a stroke. They took mom to get a CT scan at 11:30 am to see what was going on. Right when the results came back they took her to go back in the catheter in her groin and see if they need to do Angioplasty and put a balloon in the vessel to keep it open. They began surgery around 12:45 pm and and we got the news at 3:30 pm that the procedure went well and the spasms were not as bad as the numbers indicated, so they just put medication into the vessel to help with the spasms it was having.
They had to give her more fluids so she is very swollen, but now she has the right level of fluids in her body. Later that day her oxygen level in her blood was low, so they decided to give her one unit of blood for a transfusion. Kelda, our nurse, said the transfusion was to get more blood and oxygen to her brain. Her body accepted it very well and the levels were back up.
They took a sample from her lung to test for the possibility of pneumonia. Around 11:30 pm she spiked another fever so they send more blood and urine to be tested for an infection. It will take a couple of days to get those results back. The rest of the evening she rested.
Thank you for all the visitors, food, prayers, and support!
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