When will she respond?

[4Lynette]

My sister in law suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm on Christmas day. She has had an angiogram,a coil placed, & angioplasty for the vasospasms. . . but she is still not able to respond. The doctors and neuro surgeons tell us to give it time, but now that a month has gone by I feel we should have seen more progress??? Lynette was in ICU for 3 weeks and now in acute care for one and a half weeks. She is stable and going to be sent out of the Acute care soon to a nursing home. We are hoping for PT to begin, but she can't participate yet. All she can do is open her eyes and breathe on her own. That's it so far. . . after a month we are expecting more. Just hoping for someone to tell me it's going to get better because they have experienced it before. Please tell me that it's not impossible for this single mom to find use of her arms and legs again, that she will be able to sit up on her own and experience a quality of life, although not the same as before, but a life of meaning to share with her children. Please let me know if this is possible?
Thank you.

[Aussie]

[QUOTE=4Lynette;312471]My sister in law suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm on Christmas day. She has had an angiogram,a coil placed, & angioplasty for the vasospasms. . . but she is still not able to respond. The doctors and neuro surgeons tell us to give it time, but now that a month has gone by I feel we should have seen more progress??? Lynette was in ICU for 3 weeks and now in acute care for one and a half weeks. She is stable and going to be sent out of the Acute care soon to a nursing home. We are hoping for PT to begin, but she can't participate yet. All she can do is open her eyes and breathe on her own. That's it so far. . . after a month we are expecting more. Just hoping for someone to tell me it's going to get better because they have experienced it before. Please tell me that it's not impossible for this single mom to find use of her arms and legs again, that she will be able to sit up on her own and experience a quality of life, although not the same as before, but a life of meaning to share with her children. Please let me know if this is possible?
Thank you.[/QUOTE
TRY TO HANG IN THERE....THE TRAUMA THAT YOUR SISTER HAS ENDURED HAS BEEN MASSIVE.IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY UNFAIR TO PROMISE ANYTHING TO YOU OTHER THAN TO SAY EACH NEW DAY WILL BRING AN EXTRA BONUS.IT IS STILL EARLY DAYS (EVEN IF IT HAS BEEN A MONTH) I WORK IN REHAB...SEEING MANY PATIENTS WHO HAVE ENDURED MANY TRAUMAS,EACH ONE HAS LEFT US WITH MORE ABILITIES THAN FIRST EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE. LET US KNOW HOW THINGS PROGRESS BUT DO KNOW THAT IT WILL ALL TAKE TIME. THE LOVE YOU HAVE FOR YOUR SISTER IS OBVIOUS,USE THIS TO IT'S FULL POTENTIAL BY ENCOURAGING,SUPPORTING AND NOT GIVING UP ON HER. BEST WISHES...GLENDA

[JAVISI]

When my dad had a ruptured annie. I think the hardest part was not knowing what his full potential would be. He didn't sleep for days afterwards, he would speak but the things that he would say were off the wall. He had to be fed.

The most the Neuro's could offer us is we don't kjnow what his full function will be! I hated that answer I wanted to know that my dad was going to be the same as he was before his clipping.

We cried many tears, prayed and kept on hoping, talking to him. In time he did finally come back to us although his personality is a little diffferent, only enough that we can tell, but he is back.

The brain is an amazing organ that can perform miricles, although I don't want to give you false hope. Keep on talking to her. That can only help. No one knows how much she will progress at this point but I hope you have faith in some kind of a higher power that you can pray and talk to.

Coming here is a good step their are many people that are here that will help you, give you strength, and listen to you. I wish your sister all the best and will keep her in my thoughts and prayers!

Hugs, Javi