Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Day 7

Dave just called this morning - he was watching the football game last night and his very best oldest friend Larry Wickens arrived for the last 1/2 hour of visitation from Ontario, Canada. Dave was overwhelmed to say the least.

Today is Day 7 of the "incident" and the most critical day to watch for signs of vasospasm - a constriction of a brain artery that can cause a stroke. Signs are confusion, double vision, neck ache, and elevated blood pressure. Dave has all those this morning. Yesterday the angio test came back clear so that was a bit of good news. Dave has a daily CT scan and a Doppler scan for the Doctors to look at the arteries.

He was listless and lethargic today. Moments of clear lucidity and moments of confusion. Perfectly normal I understand.

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