Firstly, thank you to everyone who has been providing meals, yard work, housework and transportation to doctors' appointments! We are so grateful for your support.
Sally returned from Washington DC late Saturday with the children after attending a work-related conference there. Bernard had lots of visitors, good food and rest while the rest of the family was away. His physical therapy is focusing primarily on strength building on his left side--from his limbs to his vocal cords. He is making progress, though it feels frustratingly slow to him at times. He also rues his hair loss, which was due to too much radiation from the cameras used during the procedure to fix his aneurysm. He decided to have his head shaved, which actually looks good on him.
Wednesday morning he will have an MRI, which we pray will show that all of the aneurysm has been coiled with nothing "hiding" this time. Please keep us in your prayers for this day.
Some of you have asked me to clarify how many strokes Bernard actually had. The hemorrhage he had on April 12 is classified as a stroke, even though it is rare and not related to blood flow being blocked. He had a second "typical" stroke on May 10, where the blood flow in the area of the aneurysm (where the stent had been placed) was slowed down or affected by a clot from the puncture in his leg artery. The puncture in his leg artery was a complication from the second angiogram to coil the rest of the aneurysm on May 9. The surgeons entered the catheter in the leg artery and it unfortunately punctured it without them knowing at the time.
I will post again after the MRI results come out.
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