Bernard is back home

Bernard was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday night and is back home. He is able to walk with a walker and will have outpatient rehab. He is working on gaining strength and endurance as well as doing exercises for his left side (which was affected by the second stroke). He welcomes visitors as he is cooped up at home right now, his only "excursions" being visits to the doctor or PT!

Some of you also know that Baby Bernard was hospitalized over the weekend for dehydration (from having a gastrointestinal virus). Big Bernard got wheeled up to the pediatric unit to see his son. What a weekend! Thank God they are both home now and doing better.

Doing better today

Bernard has started moving his left leg a little, which is really encouraging. We are hoping that he will be moved into in-patient rehab as soon as possible. He wants to thank everyone for their prayers and good wishes.

It was a stroke after all

Bernard had an MRI last night that showed he had a "classic" anterior cerebral artery stroke, probably sometime on Saturday. At this point the neurologist cannot link it directly to the perforation of the leg artery during Friday's procedure to fix the aneurysm. So Bernard has had two different kinds of strokes in one month and is living to tell the tale, thanks be to God. Please keep us in your prayers.

Bernard is back in the ICU

Last Wednesday they discovered that Bernard still had a partial aneurysm that had been "hiding" when they did the intial coiling procedure on April 15. So they went back in to finish the job on Friday and Bernard was set to go home on Saturday. Just as he was about to be discharged, he started having severe pain in his side which was discovered to be internal bleeding from a punctured artery (the artery that the catheter had entered the day before). To make a very long story short, they ended up repairing the artery at 2am on Sunday morning. I spent the night in the hospital. His left side is weaker than before and they are trying to find out why, because they don't believe he had a stroke. We have had a rough ride and are very grateful for the support and prayers we have been getting from friends and family.