Just a little update

It's been over a week since I last posted, so here I am getting in a little bit of an update for everyone.

We finally got in to see a neurologist last week, and he has ordered up another battery of tests for Sue, aimed at finding out the original cause of the hemorrhage.  She gets to have another MRI, this time of the thoracic spine, that is, the region between the one she had in the hospital and the one she had a couple of weeks ago!  They are also contemplating what they call a "4 vessel angiogram", which is like a heart catheterization except they shoot the dye into your brain instead of your heart.  It's more extensive and invasive than the ones they did in the hospital.  Sue is pretty leery of that one, and I don't blame her.

Overall, her recovery is progressing pretty nicely.  She has been getting headaches almost every morning, which the docs tell us is normal and just a sign that her brain isn't fully healed yet.  If she takes it easy and takes her migrane medication she can usually get rid of it by lunchtime.

She is up and around much more now than ever, and she has been taking short walks in the evening.  This has really been good for her spirits, but she has found that her endurance isn't nearly what it was before she went to the hospital.  Being bedridden for three weeks will do that for you!  Still, the fact that she is doing that at all is very encouraging, and just another milestone in her recovery.

As far as recovery time goes, they are telling us between two and four months is typical, and our family doc thinks that because the bleed was so small and there was no surgery involved, she will probably be on the earlier end of that range.  As of right now she is still planning on teaching her class starting August 20th, and has been preparing her class materials during her "down times".

This week she is at her mom's with the kids.  She was supposed to help with their church's Vacation Bible School, but that has been ruled out.  But if you were planning on stopping to see her this week, she won't be here!