Originally Posted by tiredwithtwins

ok, names and stuff changed to protect identities

here is their story.....and why i posted the post i posted...if you get my drift


"Last Friday he called on his way home from work disorientated so we went to pick him up, he and the car were covered in vomit.

Got him home and tried to force some of his latest medication for the 6-month long head pains down him, this time for "migraine" After more vomit and a few hours he collapsed and the ambulance was called again. This time we were taken to XXXXX hospital (last time XXXXX who were total crap) when he got there he was totally out of it and very agitated and had no reaction in his left eye or side. He was taken for a CT scan and it showed a huge growth in his brain that was blocking all the fluid draining. He had some thing serious called hydrokephelis and it is life threatening. He then had a seizure and at that point it was very nearly over.

The on call neuro guy came in and basically shut him down. He paralysed him, intubated him and slowed the heart to barley nothing.

Then the M.I.C.A ambos were called (intensive care) who got him onto their transport all the time pressing one of those bags for air into his lungs. They said to follow them to XXXXXXX hospital (about a 20 min drive), as they would take it steady. We got down to the end of the road, they stopped and ran to my window and told me they were tanking it and not to try to keep up. I gave up the chase doing about 140k's.

Then we walked straight to theatre where the neuro team were standing by, gloved gowned and masked. They asked where the pain was more prevalent, and then wheeled him off saying "we are going to try to do something that might just save your husbands life"

I sat for 2 long hours waiting for the news. He was in a critical condition and he spent 4 days in I.C.U. The surgeon came in and told him he was a lucky man and had we had been half an hour later he wouldn't have made it.

He stayed in hospital all week flat on his back with two drains dripping into bags making his brain calm for today. He was in theatre for 6 and a half agonising hours.

The surgeons said they had never seen a sist that big before and it took them a long time because they think it had been there for years and had imbedded itself well and truly on to the brain stem.. He can move all limbs and is able to talk and drink and even had a few spoonfuls of dinner.

The part of the brain most affected is the short-term memory bank but they think it’s just bruised and will come back on line in the coming weeks. He can recall everything, where he lives, works, kids names ages, what he does etc etc.

We actually died laughing tonight when I handed him the remote thing. I explained the nurse call button and the light and how it worked. He looked really befuddled so I asked why and he said it looked familiar. I explained that he had one like it in his room for the last 2 days but the other switches were for the TV and he didn’t have one in here. “Why?” he asked. “Because theres no point in you watching it cos after five minutes you’d forget what you were watching anyway” I replied. We laughed. Then he says what does this do? That’s the light hun, he flicks it on for the second time “oh yeah” he nods. Whats the blue one for?

“TV, remember why you don’t have one?”

“ermm cos this hospitals shit house?”

“NO” See above answer

Then he turns the light on (another 5 times) “ooo I’ve got a light”!

Jesus just call me Bill Murray I say,. He gets the joke and we laugh like we haven’t laughed for months. He had changed so much from the person I had once known. The GP did a very crap job and I will, once I have a few seconds to breathe, be writing to them and making my views very clear.

I am going to bed to try to sleep for the first time this week, though I don’t know if I will cos now I’m so excited at the prospect of a whole new start, something massive and fantastic will await me and my family and I will never ever take a day for granted ever again."

You will be pleased to know that he continues to make a good recovery...and the missus is manageing to maintain her fab sense of humour.

no speculating about who it is though PLEASE folks.....but if you want to add any message, this thread will be looked at by the peeps involved.

Originally Posted by Louise M

Tiredwithtwins

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Lou