Thank you for all the prayers! My Uncle has Musclular Sclerosis and his health has een deteriorating over the last ten years. He was very functional up until about a month ago. Just before Thanksgiving he started getting major headaches. He said that he had never experienced that amount of pain in his entire life. The headaches lasted about a month. He went to his doctor who ran different tests on him and found that his spinal fluid was low. I'm not sure if they did a head CT on him or if they assumed that the low spinal fluid was the only cause of the headaches. Most of his symptoms were written off by his doctors as MS symptoms.
During the course of these headaches my Uncle Thad was losing his memory, his ability to walk and talk, and perform his daily activities. It wasn't until Monday night, when my Aunt Judy, came home from work that she found him in such a state that she thought he may have had a stroke. He could not move, talk, walk, he could not function at all. My cousin Thaddeus came over and took him to the hospital. The doctors ordered a head CT and found a large subdural hematoma on the left side of his brain. They also found a fresh, small one as well.
The brain surgeon who reviewed his scans set him up for surgery the next day. At 3pm he went into surgery and was finished in less that 2 hours. The doctors removed all of the large hematoma and didn't see the small hematoma. The day after the surgery he said he felt 100% better. His speech was back and his memory was much better. He is feeling wonderful in comparison. I don't believe he is up and walking yet.
The large hematoma was so big that it put so much pressure on his brain that it moved his brain over a bit. We hoped that once the hemotoma was removed that his brain would "bounce" back into its original place. Unfortunately, that did not happen. There is a tube placed in that gap that is draining excess fluid. I don't know how long the tube will be there but until it is removed he must remain in the ICU.
Thanks for all the prayers! THey were miraculous!
Love,
Krystal
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My dad had that exact surgery in 2006, and within 6 weeks was back to normal. But the time leading up to the operation and the immediate recovery were scary and hard. Best wishes to your uncle and your entire family.
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