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Jacob Blum Asheboro NC was in a serious car accident last week. He is 16
Sunday, April 19, 2009 2:00 AM, EDT
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Early Saturday am, they shaved part of his head and inserted a catheter into his skull to release pressure/fluids from extensive brain swelling. Keeping in mind, his abdomen will be open for a minimum of two days… After monitoring it for several hours, decision was made to go ahead and have a CAT scan completed. Results from it confirmed he suffered a stroke in addition to all the physical head and chest trauma. Doctors came back shortly and said that they were overly concerned that the stroke was worsening. Immediate decision was made to start giving medication to him to see if this would assist in halting the worsening conditioning of the stroke. If this didn’t work, they would have to remove half of his skull to allow the brain adequate room with all this pressure… About two hours later, we finally received some positive news that the medication had brought him out of the immediate danger classification. Doctor’s then decided it was time to start removing him from pain killers and the paralyzing medications to see how he would respond to each. They allowed approximately one hour, then had my sister and brother-in-law go in with him to being talking to him to see how or if he would react.
Some number of hours later, they were able to sporadically get him to respond with his right foot, right toes, and right hand. While this indicates some positive progress, it just means what was already know – which is that they did not detect the stroke in the left-hand side of the brain, therefore his body is responding on the right-hand side. Being that the stroke was imminent on the right side of his skull, we would like to be able to see movement on the left-hand side… Doctors stated it is a wait-and-see game now to see how he responds or if he responds.
They still have not been able to do a full body scan, however he does have a broken clavicle, broken shoulder blade, and who knows what else.
Saturday, April 18, 2009 7:51 AM, EDT
At the accident scene, Jacob did not have a pulse or blood pressure. After being air lifted to trauma center, he spent approximately 2 hours in surgery trying to get bleeding to stop. Fortunately, they were able to get him stabilized later in the evening, after stapling off part of his lung which was punctured by broken ribs. While waiting to get him stabilized enough to do full body MRI/Cat Scan to check the extent of the head injury and to check to see if anything else might be an issue, his body started reacting negatively to all the recessitation causing fluids and pressure to build up in body which is not allowing his lungs to inflate. He was taken back into the Operating Room late last night in order to open his abdomen back up to release the pressure and excessive fluid build-up, allowing the doctors to monitor internal functions and how they are reacting for the next two days.
Sunday, April 19, 2009 2:00 AM, EDT
www.caringbridges.org/visit/jacobblum
Early Saturday am, they shaved part of his head and inserted a catheter into his skull to release pressure/fluids from extensive brain swelling. Keeping in mind, his abdomen will be open for a minimum of two days… After monitoring it for several hours, decision was made to go ahead and have a CAT scan completed. Results from it confirmed he suffered a stroke in addition to all the physical head and chest trauma. Doctors came back shortly and said that they were overly concerned that the stroke was worsening. Immediate decision was made to start giving medication to him to see if this would assist in halting the worsening conditioning of the stroke. If this didn’t work, they would have to remove half of his skull to allow the brain adequate room with all this pressure… About two hours later, we finally received some positive news that the medication had brought him out of the immediate danger classification. Doctor’s then decided it was time to start removing him from pain killers and the paralyzing medications to see how he would respond to each. They allowed approximately one hour, then had my sister and brother-in-law go in with him to being talking to him to see how or if he would react.
Some number of hours later, they were able to sporadically get him to respond with his right foot, right toes, and right hand. While this indicates some positive progress, it just means what was already know – which is that they did not detect the stroke in the left-hand side of the brain, therefore his body is responding on the right-hand side. Being that the stroke was imminent on the right side of his skull, we would like to be able to see movement on the left-hand side… Doctors stated it is a wait-and-see game now to see how he responds or if he responds.
They still have not been able to do a full body scan, however he does have a broken clavicle, broken shoulder blade, and who knows what else.
Saturday, April 18, 2009 7:51 AM, EDT
At the accident scene, Jacob did not have a pulse or blood pressure. After being air lifted to trauma center, he spent approximately 2 hours in surgery trying to get bleeding to stop. Fortunately, they were able to get him stabilized later in the evening, after stapling off part of his lung which was punctured by broken ribs. While waiting to get him stabilized enough to do full body MRI/Cat Scan to check the extent of the head injury and to check to see if anything else might be an issue, his body started reacting negatively to all the recessitation causing fluids and pressure to build up in body which is not allowing his lungs to inflate. He was taken back into the Operating Room late last night in order to open his abdomen back up to release the pressure and excessive fluid build-up, allowing the doctors to monitor internal functions and how they are reacting for the next two days.
