On June 18, 2014 my wife started talking incoherently, lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital where the did emergency surgery due to an aneurysm that bled on her right side. They removed a piece of her skull to relieve the pressure. The doc said her brain had shifted 15mm over midline and it didn’t look good. After about 2 weeks they did a ct and MRI and said the brain had returned to normal position and they didn’t see any major damage. He then asked if we would like to try and repair the aneurysm and of course I said yes.
So at 2 1/2 weeks we were transferred to a larger hospital with a specialist who coiled the aneurysm and all went well. Up to this point my wife had still never woken up. A few days after the coiling she started opening her left eye some, a few days later she was moving her right arm.
Now it has been 6 1/2 weeks. She has slowly seemed to add more and more activity. She now still only opens her left eye mostly, sometimes the right eye will open when she is moved. She will follow commands most of the time like give a thumbs up or show me 2 fingers. When the therapists come in they have her wipe her mouth with a rag, rub lotion into her hands and she does all this. She seems like she is listening when I talk to her at times and other it’s like she is just looking through me. She moves both arms and legs though her left arm is weak. She has a trach and a feeding tube even though she was always able to breathe on her own.
I’m confused because the scans showed no damage and the doc said if he had to predict he would think maybe just some weakness on the left side. It has been so long and the other stories I read people are out for much shorter times. The docs at the new hospital just say there’s no way to know and we just have to wait and see. They want us to move her to a nursing home because she isn’t strong enough to do 3 hours of rehab a day that they require.
Is this a long time? She makes progress but slowly and she has just started storming at times. I love her so much and want to do all I can to get her through this.