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So, my mother’s birthday (she just turned 51) was the day before yesterday, we had a little party at my brother’s house, gifts, etc. Overall it was a fairly good birthday, but then yesterday she got a “present” that nobody was expecting.
She got a call from the hospital where she had gone 6 months earlier for tests for chronic headaches and dizziness. The doctor that evaluated her gave her an MRI-E and said everything was normal.
The doctor who called her said that they were investigating her MRI results for insurance reasons, and he immediately discovered that she has a cerebral aneurysm in the left lobe of her brain. He knew something was wrong because he noticed that the chart said that the evaluation was normal.
I’ve been doing a lot of research on cerebral aneurysms, and it doesn’t look promising. The mortality rate is horrible if the aneurysm bursts, and the risks for surgery are way up there as well. From what I'm reading, it looks like a successful surgery decreases the mortality rate by a lot, but it increases every year after the surgery. We’re not even sure it can be operated on; they have to do more tests on Monday so that they can get a better view of it from a different angle.
Obviously this has really shaken her up, I simply cannot imagine what it must feel like to know that you have a ticking time bomb in your head. It’s shaken up our family too. I would simply like to ask that you keep her and our family in your thoughts and prayers – it would mean a lot to me.
She got a call from the hospital where she had gone 6 months earlier for tests for chronic headaches and dizziness. The doctor that evaluated her gave her an MRI-E and said everything was normal.
The doctor who called her said that they were investigating her MRI results for insurance reasons, and he immediately discovered that she has a cerebral aneurysm in the left lobe of her brain. He knew something was wrong because he noticed that the chart said that the evaluation was normal.
I’ve been doing a lot of research on cerebral aneurysms, and it doesn’t look promising. The mortality rate is horrible if the aneurysm bursts, and the risks for surgery are way up there as well. From what I'm reading, it looks like a successful surgery decreases the mortality rate by a lot, but it increases every year after the surgery. We’re not even sure it can be operated on; they have to do more tests on Monday so that they can get a better view of it from a different angle.
Obviously this has really shaken her up, I simply cannot imagine what it must feel like to know that you have a ticking time bomb in your head. It’s shaken up our family too. I would simply like to ask that you keep her and our family in your thoughts and prayers – it would mean a lot to me.
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