Just a quick update. The healing continues from my surgery, although most of the pain I’m experiencing is the rectal pain during/after a BM. At times I get impatient that I’m not healing faster, but I do realize that it’s just going to take time. I have my next CT scan next month to see if the cancer has spread, so wish me luck!
Dale
We had a pretty good scare Saturday evening. Marcia was reading a magazine and all of a sudden, she started seeing flashes and lightning bolts in front of her left eye, and her right eye became real blurry, and she couldn’t focus with her eyes. I told her to go lay down in the bedroom, which she did, but wanted to watch t.v.. When she pulled up the screen for the tv show info, she couldn’t read the words on the screen and say them. She started trying read like she was 5-year old kid, and she couldn’t form complete sentences when you asked her questions. This really freaked me out so I took her to the emergency room. They got her in right away and ran a EKG to check her heart, and initially they said the top part of her heart was beating faster than the bottom part so they were concerned.
They then took us back to a private room where they put her on oxygen, and hooked up some monitors and we waited for the doctor to come in. Also, by this time, she was starting to feel better and was answering the nurses questions normally again. The doctor finally came in and said he wanted to do a CAT scan, x-ray, and blood work, to see if she had a tumor in the brain, or if she had a stroke. Within an hour they did the x-ray, and then came and got her for the CT scan. We now had to wait for the results to find out what was going on. Finally, the doctor came back in and said the CT scan was negative, the x-ray was negative, and the blood work was normal, and diagnosed her with what he called a complex migrane. The symptoms are very similar to what someone goes through with a stroke and it’s very scary to watch. He gave her a prescription for Emetrex (sp) which would help with the side-effects if it starts happening again. We got there at 6:30 and finally left around 11:40 Saturday night, very relieved.
She talked to her primary care doctor on Sunday and he’s going to give her a complete physical this week and take her off her estrogen meds because they have a potential side effect of causing blood clots, which can lead to strokes. By the time we got home, she was back to normal and Sunday, she was a little tired, but feeling like her old self. I can’t stress enough how scary this was to all of us. The kids were freaking out in the waiting room because they were convinced she’d had a stroke. They did get a chance to come back and see her finally around 10:00 and could see she was feeling better, so we sent them home and I told them I’d call them when we got home. Definitely a stressful weekend.
