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Susan retired from education in May 2011 and I retired in December 2011 . We are not full timers but do travel a lot. We enjoy traveling around the country. There are many beautiful places in the USA and we are going to try and see all of them while we can.

Friday, January 15, 2016

Jan 9,10,11 2016 Lukes Birthday and a Hospital Stay

 We picked Mom up Saturday morning and headed up to Bryan for Luke's 1st Birthday. It was a little warm when we left Liberty but was cold when we got to Bryan. About  46 degrees with a 20 mph wind.  Luke is starting to walk pretty good. If he is in a hurry will drop and crawl. He had a good time with everyone there. We headed home and arrived about 6:00 pm.   I was tired and went to bed around 8. Things got strange after this.  Susan woke me up somewhere around 8:30. She was asking me where a ring on her finger had come from.and  that something was wrong. After I kinda woke up I looked at the ring and said we picked that up[ yesterday in Baytown. She said she didn't remember going to Baytown. I then asked her do you remember what we did today and she couldn't remember. As it turned out she could not remember any events of the last year, She didn't know the day,year or month. She didn't know who the president was (that might be nice). She did remember people,names and relationships. Sh knew places and where she was. Physically she looked fine. I called my daughter in law Lori (shes a pharmacist) asked her what she thought.We went thru the signs of a stroke and she passed every one.I took her blood pressure 3 times and it was perfect.  Lori said she still needed to go to an ER and have a CT scan as there could be bleeding in the brain. We got dressed and head to San Jacinto Methodist in Baytown. All the way there Susan repeated the same questions and answers about every 3 minutes. Exact the same thing. Wow, what a ride. Adam met us at the ER. They evaluated her and took her straight in and did a ct scan first thing. The Er doc then evaluated her,  took blood and urine samples. The scan came back fine. They decided to admit her to the hospital and we went to a room. I then ran home to get us some clothes and headed back. About 3:00 am some of her memory was coming back.  The ER doc gave an initial diagnosis of Transient Global Amnesia.  We got maybe 3 hrs of sleep. When we got up Sunday morning Susan had recovered most a of her memory. She still was missing about 5 hrs starting around 8:30.  The last thing she remembered was sitting in her chair eating peanut butter and then waking up in hospital wondering how she got there and why.   They did a mental assessment and she passed easily.(my answers wouldn't have passed).  They did a MRI and a echocardigram.  All the test results came back fine. The only thing all 4 Dr's agreed on was it was not a stroke.  The neurologist said that Transient Global Amnesia was very rare and he had only seen one case in his career (and hes about 65). He thinks this will probably never happen again. We got home Monday night just in time to watch the Alabama Clemson game.





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