So, Since the best benefit ever, Mom has been staying with me at my house. With the best assistant (my sis in law, AMY) we scheduled the first of my follow up doctor visits. With applications with SSDI and State Programs for assistance, I have continued my physical, occupational, and speech on my self. Climbing up or down the staircase, doing all "activities of daily of living" that I can, and doing worksheets given to me from the speech therapist.
Good reports from doctors seen. Cardiology pleased with blood pressures taking morning and at bedtime, will continue to adjust Coumidin (medicine that keeps my blood thin) based on weekly lab results. One of my doctors, willing to wean me off anti-seizure medications (had been on them since early hospitalization) if my neurosurgeon was okay as well. He was agreeable when we met later that week. Yes, last week I met the brilliant man that saved my life. I told him I heard bits and pieces from family and friends, and with some medical knowledge I was pretty was up to date on what I had been through the past month ;but I wanted to hear from him. He pulled out a blank sheet of paper and to describe my aneurysm and all the complications that occurred, telling me I "wrote the book on aneurysm". He encouraged me to go to visit the nurses and staff from the NICU (Neuro Intensive Care Unit). He praised on how they work on cases like mine but with much different outcomes. It was nice to hear a doctor thinking about the nurses!
Followed with the rehab doctor gave me some referrals including having my vision assessed at UH Eye Center. I have been having a problem in my left eye. It feels like something in it, like a eyelash feels. I could not identify even the special extra huge letters, the eye center had. I had what I felt was every test available for the eyeballs! Amy and I got their at 1 PM and we did not leave until 7 PM. They discovered 2 retinal hemorrhages, Obviously from the brain aneurysm. Now will see a retinal specialist on Friday. Good new is they are right here in Cypress!
