Saturday, August 13, 2011

Update on Jenene - August 12, 2011

Last night was very frightening. At about 9:15pm last night she began to have a seizure while she was sitting up in bed. She fell backwards onto the bed, but her head and left arm were over the side of the bed. I rushed to her to see if I could proper her back up and get a response from her, but I couldn’t. I then went out in the hall and called for a nurse. The nurse rushed in and started getting her back into the bed while also calling for more help. They worked on her for a little bit, with her getting a oxygen mask and them hooking her up to monitors to check her blood pressure and blood oxygen. She came out of the seizure, but then started to fight against the nurses and the care they were giving her (taking the mask off her face and the lead off her finger). But she calmed down and slowly fell asleep. About 15 minutes later, she began to seize again, luckily the nurses were still in the room, but unfortunately this was a big seizure that stopped her from breathing which in turned stopped her heart beat. They started compressions and got oxygen running through her. The rapid response team came in and started to assess her, and they were trying to get her heart beat back and her breathing normally. Once they got her rythum back they decided to intubate her with a breathing tube and move her down to the ICU.

I contacted her Mom, Charlene and her Dad to give them the news as they were prepping her to be moved to ICU. Diane and Scott, and her Dad Don and her Aunt Jacque and Uncle Dave came up to be with her. We could only visit 2 at a time, so we took times.

When she got to the ICU they still had her intubated and hooked up to oxygen, a feeding tube and they had to install a catheter. They took her to get a CT Scan where they discovered a shadow on the front and back parts of her brain. But they wanted to be sure what was going on, so they ordered an MRI to be done and the technician did not discover anything too bad, but they are having a neurologist come and check the MRI and CT.

About 11:30pm or so, she had another seizure in the ICU. They got her back under control and waited for the MRI Tech to come get her. After a few hours of giving her meds and fluid she was hooked up to an EEG machine to monitor her brain waves and brain activity. At about 3:45am she was brought down to the MRI under heavy sedation to do a full brain evaluation.

Since the MRI she has been a bit responsive to pressure and has awoken in small amounts and has moved with pressure and responded with head shakes and nods but is still very sedated.

They do not have an idea yet of what may have caused the seizures. They are going to perform a lumbar puncture to check for infection. But as of now, they are just keeping her medicated and checking her responses and watching her closely.

I will update more once we know more.

Thanks for the support.

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