It was a Doozy!

It was a rainy and cold day here on  Saturday. The cold front came in and wow, the hot humid weather we had on Wed and Thursday is a faint memory! Joe and I and the kids came to see Lisa, after sitting in a fog like mist soccer game. Chase had some really good passes, but his team lost. It was a really good game though. I called Lisa and asked her if we could come over and we told me to "go ahead!"
We get to her apt and she is sitting in her recliner. She looks a bit puffy in the face and could not find her remote control for her TV. She said she just had it. Karen and her 2 boys come over and Karen does her meds. She asks Lisa her social security number and Lisa says the first three numbers, but can't remember the rest....she keeps saying the first 3 in hopes the last 6 will come to her. I ask her what her birthday is and she is able to say it, but it was a struggle. Weird!! She rattles those off like she does her name, usually.
I take her temp and she is running a slight temp. I give her some Tylenol and stay for for a little bit. We changed the TV to gymnastics, Lisa's favorite and we watch that with her for about 45 minutes.

I look over at her and reminisce about just how 52 weeks ago, this very weekend, Amy, Karen, Lisa and I were meeting at Dad's house to meet with our pastor to pray before we headed over to Peoria for Lisa's brain surgery. We stayed in a hotel, just the sisters, and ordered Pizza and did our nails and toe's and had a party!

Karen called Joe's cell and asked him if I talked to Lori, Lisa's caretaker...Joe hands me the phone and I told her no. She told me that Lori thinks Lisa might be having a stroke!!! Instant tears. I drop my spoon, I was eating, and tell Karen that I will be right there. I left my house at 6:30 and didn't return till 12:30.
I beat Lisa to the ER and when I saw her, she was the way she was earlier. Out of it and just not able to answer simple questions. She didn't remember that any of us were at her apt and that she walked, totally unassisted with me in the hallway and the common area. She answered questions with Yes and No inappropriately. She is not herself.

Then, about 9, I saw the most horrible seizure that I have ever seen. Lisa was going into a grand mal and I called the nurse, who needed to tell the ER Dr so they could witness it. It lasted a good 2-3 minutes, but seemed like it was forever. I told the Dr that in my entire life, I have never seen her this bad. She turned blue in her face and she was just pitiful. The Dr told me that her seizures will be different now, because they are coming from a different part of her brain. She twitched for about 1 1/2 hours after that.  It was hard, to say the least. I never want her to have another one like that...EVER!!! She must've had one like it before she came to ER. She had no idea where she was at, or what happened to her.

Because she had it in the ER, they admitted her and today, she is tired, grouchy, and emotional. Me too.
Amy, and Karen were both here today and I came later. Lisa is resting and sleeping off and on. She does not want to stay here. She wants to go home and will gladly tell you that:) We don't know though. Karen talked to the nurse, who told her that they did a CT scan, no water on the brain--Whew!!! but her calcium is up and her white blood cell count is up...and...her heart stops beating for about 2 seconds.
If someone could tell us what this means, please call. She is a mess, emotionally. She will stay another night but we are not sure if she will be allowed to go home. Please pray for her and for guidance for us.

I am so glad that she was able to totally walk unassisted, she only used her hemy walker! She hugged each one of us before we left yesterday and told us she loved us...She is still Lisa, just not the same one lately. We hope that the new meds that she was put on a couple of weeks ago are the culprit and we will stop them and put her back on the ones she was on before. Pray that this is all it is.

I will try to keep this updated when I find out something...signing off, for now:)