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**Riss**
Hey Riss, just wondering how your mom is doing? Did they figure out why she fainted? Have they performed/rescheduled the surgery?
Hope everything's okay.
Re: **Riss**
Hey! Thanks for checking in on me :-)
It turns out that she didn't just faint, but she had a seizure (I didn't find out till late that evening when I went to see her). So, they are having her do a bunch of neurological and cardiology tests. Her neurologist just thinks it was nerves, though, because she is really squeamish and the nurse was having loads of trouble with the IV. Actually, my sister that was there with her fainted as a result of watching my mother seize/faint....our family was the talk of the hospital :-)
They won't schedule the surgery until they get all the results back..which will be a couple weeks. I feel really awful for my mother to have to go through all this again and to be in pain in the meantime. We're all praying that nothing else turns up and that surgery will happen real soon.
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Gosh, that's awful! Your poor mom! Has she had a history of seizures before? I hope the tests come back all clear and that it was just a result of the nerves and stress over the IV.
Sounds like she's able to go home in the meantime, which is good. I'll keep you all in my thoughts.
And yikes about your sister fainting! That actually happened to me and my sister once in the ER!! I was getting stitches in my finger and fainted when they gave me the novocaine (I think it was the sight of my finger swelling up that did me in), and my sister saw me faint and dropped out herself. The ER doc didn't know what to do with us!
I'm a fainter too...I fainted on my 12 yr old brother when I brought him to get his staples removed. My sister is worse though - she's fainted from cutting herself shaving. Just the sight of icky things knocks her out!
My mom hasn't ever had seizures and in fact the surgery is to fix a nerve problem that she's had for a while...and the medication she's been taking for it is an anti-seizure med. She took that med before going to the hospital - guess she needed a stronger dose!
The poor thing has had like 10 MRIs and tons of other tests in the past few weeks and now has a boatload more to do.
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Your poor mom! Ten MRIs? I had three catscans in two days and thought that was a lot!
When I had my head injury, the NYC hospital sent me home with anti-seizure medicine to take, but after I ended up back in the CT hospital, the neurologist there told me to not bother taking the medicine; he said there's been no evidence that it does anything to prevent seizures. My Boston neurologist backed that up, but like anything, it always varies depending on who you ask.
Regardless, I hope she doesn't have any more seizures and can put this whole ordeal behind her!