Saturday, July 19th, 2008

What a difference a day makes! I can't believe how quickly Courtney is recovering! I am sure it is because of all the prayers and fasting on her behalf! :) Thank you everyone!!! It was a LONG day yesterday and I didn't get a chance to write in her blog, so I am going to catch up.

Thursday (Surgery day) was a very long day! We have amazing nurses here and our nurse that night was very kind and let me stay over night. I brought my air mattress and I slept on the floor next to Courtney. Since the surgery didn't end until 5:30 p.m., Court's recovery from anesthesia lasted most of the night. At this hospital they did not keep Court in a recovery room, instead she recovered right in her NeuroICU room. That meant that I was able to see her go through most of it. It was midnight before she was resting comfortably and was able to go to sleep. The short note that I put in the blog I started at whatever time it said, but I actually wrote it at about 11:30 p.m. and that is why it was so short. I was exhausted!

Friday turned out to be an EVEN LONGER day. Court and I only slept 4 hours from midnight until 4:00 a.m. The nurses came in constantly it seemed to check things, so our sleep was not the best. That ended up being the last sleep I got until 11 p.m. Friday night. Courtney, on the other hand, dozed on and off all day. I guess Court has very small veins and they are extremely sensitive. When they gave her medicine through her IV's, it would burn really bad. She is on a ton of medicine. She has two IV bags with medicine to keep her heart rate low. She got a new medicine this morning to control her blood sugar because I guess brain surgery makes it go crazy. She is on an anti seizure medication and another one to reduce swelling in her brain. She takes steroids, Pepcid, antibiotics and on top of it all, our favorite, Pain Medication! :) Since the meds that they put in her veins were so painful, they eventually were able to give them to her in pill form once she started drinking and eating. That was a huge relief. Courtney has a line going into an artery on her right arm. It got clogged and so they had to reinsert it. She was NOT happy about that! It hurt like heck! She actually said that she hated that man! I can't blame her!

Friday evening they did another angiogram on Courtney and the best news was that THEY GOT THE AVM ALL OUT!!! Yeah!! We are thrilled. We did not know this, but AVM's will grow back if they do not remove all of it. Yuck! Can you imagine having surgery once only to find out you had to do it again? Nathan and Layne came to visit Court and then Layne stayed the night and I went home at 10 p.m.. Court was doing much better that night once she could take her meds in pill form. :)

It is now 11:30 on Saturday night. It takes me forever to get this blog done because I am constantly up and down helping Court. I am exhausted and will have to catch up this blog tomorrow. Goodnight! Holly :)


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