Please pray for my family.
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Prayers incoming.
RKBABob
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I'll pray for you, too.
Man, what a turn of events your family has gone through...
Man, what a turn of events your family has gone through...
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I pray for you and your family.
I pray for strength and wisdom for you and healing for the rest of the crew.
I pray for strength and wisdom for you and healing for the rest of the crew.
5knives
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Prayers for your family members sent and continuing!
Prayers for rapid healing and recovery, and for those dealing with their loss already.
All the Best to you and yours!
Prayers for rapid healing and recovery, and for those dealing with their loss already.
All the Best to you and yours!
"This morning, the father of this family, my uncle, had a stroke. He is in an ICU and is bleeding into his brain."
unisonic writes:
"That's not a stroke. A stroke is a blood vessel blockage. He had a cerebral aneurysm, which is when a blood vessel ruptures."
Hemorrhagic stroke
"Hemorrhage" is the medical word for bleeding. Hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blood vessel in your brain leaks or ruptures. Hemorrhages can result from a number of conditions that affect your blood vessels, including uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension) and weak spots in your blood vessel walls (aneurysms). A less common cause of hemorrhage is the rupture of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) — an abnormal tangle of thin-walled blood vessels, present at birth. There are two types of hemorrhagic stroke:
Intracerebral hemorrhage. In this type of stroke, a blood vessel in the brain bursts and spills into the surrounding brain tissue, damaging cells. Brain cells beyond the leak are deprived of blood and are also damaged. High blood pressure is the most common cause of this type of hemorrhagic stroke. Over time, high blood pressure can cause small arteries inside your brain to become brittle and susceptible to cracking and rupture.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage. In this type of stroke, bleeding starts in a large artery on or near the surface of the brain and spills into the space between the surfaces of your brain and your skull. This type of hemorrhage is often signaled by a sudden, severe "thunderclap" headache. This type of stroke is commonly caused by the rupture of an aneurysm, which can develop with age or be genetically inherited. After the hemorrhage, the blood vessels in your brain may widen and narrow erratically (vasospasm), causing brain cell damage by further limiting blood flow to parts of your brain.
There are other strokes that bleed into the brain space as well.
scythefwd:
Your family will be in my prayers.
unisonic writes:
"That's not a stroke. A stroke is a blood vessel blockage. He had a cerebral aneurysm, which is when a blood vessel ruptures."
Hemorrhagic stroke
"Hemorrhage" is the medical word for bleeding. Hemorrhagic stroke occurs when a blood vessel in your brain leaks or ruptures. Hemorrhages can result from a number of conditions that affect your blood vessels, including uncontrolled high blood pressure (hypertension) and weak spots in your blood vessel walls (aneurysms). A less common cause of hemorrhage is the rupture of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) — an abnormal tangle of thin-walled blood vessels, present at birth. There are two types of hemorrhagic stroke:
Intracerebral hemorrhage. In this type of stroke, a blood vessel in the brain bursts and spills into the surrounding brain tissue, damaging cells. Brain cells beyond the leak are deprived of blood and are also damaged. High blood pressure is the most common cause of this type of hemorrhagic stroke. Over time, high blood pressure can cause small arteries inside your brain to become brittle and susceptible to cracking and rupture.
Subarachnoid hemorrhage. In this type of stroke, bleeding starts in a large artery on or near the surface of the brain and spills into the space between the surfaces of your brain and your skull. This type of hemorrhage is often signaled by a sudden, severe "thunderclap" headache. This type of stroke is commonly caused by the rupture of an aneurysm, which can develop with age or be genetically inherited. After the hemorrhage, the blood vessels in your brain may widen and narrow erratically (vasospasm), causing brain cell damage by further limiting blood flow to parts of your brain.
There are other strokes that bleed into the brain space as well.
scythefwd:
Your family will be in my prayers.
scythefwd
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They are talking about letting my 8 yo cousin go home in a couple of weeks. My uncle is well enough to complain about everything. Good news all around.
scythefwd
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My 8yo is going home Thursday. She wrote her name, well what she goes by at least, today without prompting. She is now parroting other people, but not making much conversation on her own. This is a miracle. She went from not knowing if she will wake up to talking a little, walking on her own, and going home before Christmas. All this in a span of 5 weeks. Thank all of you. My uncle hasn't changed much, but he was never really super bad.
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are with you and your family during this Christmas season!
are with you and your family during this Christmas season!
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scythefwd, all the best. Lost my Dad to a stroke summer of 07. Five weeks from healthy active 77 year old to riding back to San Antonio in a baggie in a - very pretty hand carved mesquite wood - box.
Unisonic, I second all that has been said about hemmoragic strokes. I am on warfarin therapy and will be for the rest of my life. I have to monitor my blood clotting time very carefully. If the time gets too low - i.e. close to normal - I run the risk of throwing a clot out of my heart. If it's out of the right side it will go straight to my lungs - it's called pulmonary embolism and is usually fatal. If I throw a clot out of the left side of my heart I risk ischemic stroke - the carotid artery is the first tap off the aorta - if it doesnt go up the carotid then I get to experience the fun of thrombosis somewhere else - liver, kidneys, all sorts of fun places.
If the clotting time gets too high I risk a hemorragic stroke. That's what ultimately killed my kid (7 years younger) brother. He was in liver failure and his blood wasn't clotting well at all. Something popped in his head and there was no way to make it stop.
These days I check my clotting time at home and can do it weekly. Helps to be able to adjust the rat poison (that's what warfarin started out as) in something more like real time. If I decide to take myself out I'll go drink a bottle of soybean oil - very high in vitamin K - and pig out on guacamole - avocadoes are also high in vitamin K - and go out quickly. I am not ready to move down the street from my folks - they're bunking at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetary - just yet.
Please don't spout medical stuff unless you know for sure. Google "stroke" Lots of good stuff out there.
Again, scythefwd, all the best. Keep us posted.
Unisonic, I second all that has been said about hemmoragic strokes. I am on warfarin therapy and will be for the rest of my life. I have to monitor my blood clotting time very carefully. If the time gets too low - i.e. close to normal - I run the risk of throwing a clot out of my heart. If it's out of the right side it will go straight to my lungs - it's called pulmonary embolism and is usually fatal. If I throw a clot out of the left side of my heart I risk ischemic stroke - the carotid artery is the first tap off the aorta - if it doesnt go up the carotid then I get to experience the fun of thrombosis somewhere else - liver, kidneys, all sorts of fun places.
If the clotting time gets too high I risk a hemorragic stroke. That's what ultimately killed my kid (7 years younger) brother. He was in liver failure and his blood wasn't clotting well at all. Something popped in his head and there was no way to make it stop.
These days I check my clotting time at home and can do it weekly. Helps to be able to adjust the rat poison (that's what warfarin started out as) in something more like real time. If I decide to take myself out I'll go drink a bottle of soybean oil - very high in vitamin K - and pig out on guacamole - avocadoes are also high in vitamin K - and go out quickly. I am not ready to move down the street from my folks - they're bunking at Ft. Sam Houston National Cemetary - just yet.
Please don't spout medical stuff unless you know for sure. Google "stroke" Lots of good stuff out there.
Again, scythefwd, all the best. Keep us posted.
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scythefwd,
You and your family will be in my constant prayers. May God grant you strength and grant wisdom and skill to the Doctors and Caregivers.
Deepest respects,
DarkSoldier
You and your family will be in my constant prayers. May God grant you strength and grant wisdom and skill to the Doctors and Caregivers.
Deepest respects,
DarkSoldier
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Will pray for you and your family.
God bless you.
Will pray for you and your family.
God bless you.
hillbill
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ill be praying for your family because i know first hand from a bad motorcycle wreck in 1981 that if its the lords will, prayers will be answerd.
bikerdoc
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still keeping you in prayer
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