Today Grandma saw Dr. Mark Dunn, he is her regular doctor at OHSU family medicine. He has chosen to leave any pills for her heart up to the cardiologist which she see's tomorrow. The last couple of days she has been in some extream pain, but have been able to controle it with a regualar pain medication schedruel. We also found out that her asoficise doese not close like it should, that is why she has so many issues with heart burn/ acid reflex also why she got the Funges infection in her throat.
Other then this there really is no other information. wait...
She got a hospital bed which Uncle Neil and Vernin helped put up along with Aunt Debbie and Kathy.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Friday, April 17, 2009
The Pacemaker and the Stroke.
Well as most of you know by now Grandma had a pacemaker implanted to help regulate her heart beat. Now what the pacemaker will do is allow them to help slow her heart when it gets to beating to fast. The pacemaker will not allow her heart to beat to slow. So the irregular heart beat is being helped by the pacemaker.
The night before she went in to have surgery she had a stroke that effected the right side of her brain. Her right hand doesn't quiet work as well as it once did and she has trouble with her right leg as well, But the worst is her sight, She now has to turn her head to the right instead of just looking out of the right side of her right eye. This is all stuff that will be worked on with the physiotherapist which she has appointments with in May.
Fallowing info found from
http://www.brainaustralia.org.au/stroke/effects_of_stroke
http://www.medicinenet.com/arrhythmia_irregular_heartbeat/page3.htm#pacemaker
This site also has a lot of interesting information on Heart Arrhythmia (Irregular Heartbeat)
The night before she went in to have surgery she had a stroke that effected the right side of her brain. Her right hand doesn't quiet work as well as it once did and she has trouble with her right leg as well, But the worst is her sight, She now has to turn her head to the right instead of just looking out of the right side of her right eye. This is all stuff that will be worked on with the physiotherapist which she has appointments with in May.
Fallowing info found from
http://www.brainaustralia.org.au/stroke/effects_of_stroke
Effects of Left Hemisphere Strokes
The left hemisphere of the brain controls the movement of the right side of the body. It also controls speech and language abilities for most people. A left-hemisphere stroke often causes paralysis of the right side of the body. This is known as right hemiplegia.
Someone who has had a left-hemisphere stroke may also develop aphasia. Aphasia is a catch all term used to describe a wide range of speech and language problems. These problems can be highly specific, affecting only one part of the patient's ability to communicate, such as the ability to move their speech-related muscles to talk properly. The same patient may be completely unimpaired when it comes to writing, reading or understanding speech.
In contrast to survivors of right-hemisphere stroke, patients who have had a left-hemisphere stroke often develop a slow and cautious behavior. They may need frequent instruction and feedback to finish tasks.
Patients with left-hemisphere stroke may develop memory problems similar to those of right-hemisphere stroke survivors. These problems can include shortened retention spans, difficulty in learning new information and problems in conceptualizing and generalizing.
http://www.medicinenet.com/arrhythmia_irregular_heartbeat/page3.htm#pacemaker
This site also has a lot of interesting information on Heart Arrhythmia (Irregular Heartbeat)
What is a pacemaker?
A pacemaker is a device that sends small electrical impulses to the heart muscle to maintain a suitable heart rate. Pacemakers primarily prevent the heart from beating too slowly. The pacemaker has a pulse generator (which houses the battery and a tiny computer) and leads (wires) that send impulses from the pulse generator to the heart muscle. Newer pacemakers have many sophisticated features that are designed to help manage arrhythmia and optimize heart-rate-related function as much as possible.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
The first blog.
Hello family,
This is me Carrie. I have desided that maybe some of you would like to know better whats going on with the eldest in our family. Jane Thompson, or most of you call her, Grandma. Well I have desided that for thoughs of you who are wanting to know that I would set up this place. A place where you can come and read after a Doctors appointment or after a test is ran, or just the day to day stuff she goes through. I will try to post as often as I can. But I am not just looking after our grandmother, I am also trying to get in to Pre med, so I have a lot on my plate to.
One of the other reasons I am posting this blog is because I want some people to realize that she is quiet ill at the moment and cant travel, Really that is doctors orders. Also perhaps it will give you a glimpse in that not only do we (my sister's and mother and I) get her for holidays all of the time and her birthday, but because we also get her for the Emergency Room trips, the doctors appointments, The nights she wakes up and has problems breathing, the days where she cant seem to stay awake, along with the nights she cant sleep. The nights we go with out sleep because we are worried about her.
I know some of you might be thinking at this point "Well why don't she go to a nursing home." All I can say is how dare you, how dare you for one moment think of putting her in a nursing home. There are cultures older then ours that sacrifice everything for there elders. I might have more time for myself if I didn't have to schedule things about doctor visits and such. But then I remember that she is my grandmother and what kind of horrible wicked person I would be if I allowed such thing to happen, or even for even thinking of it.
Carrie
This is me Carrie. I have desided that maybe some of you would like to know better whats going on with the eldest in our family. Jane Thompson, or most of you call her, Grandma. Well I have desided that for thoughs of you who are wanting to know that I would set up this place. A place where you can come and read after a Doctors appointment or after a test is ran, or just the day to day stuff she goes through. I will try to post as often as I can. But I am not just looking after our grandmother, I am also trying to get in to Pre med, so I have a lot on my plate to.
One of the other reasons I am posting this blog is because I want some people to realize that she is quiet ill at the moment and cant travel, Really that is doctors orders. Also perhaps it will give you a glimpse in that not only do we (my sister's and mother and I) get her for holidays all of the time and her birthday, but because we also get her for the Emergency Room trips, the doctors appointments, The nights she wakes up and has problems breathing, the days where she cant seem to stay awake, along with the nights she cant sleep. The nights we go with out sleep because we are worried about her.
I know some of you might be thinking at this point "Well why don't she go to a nursing home." All I can say is how dare you, how dare you for one moment think of putting her in a nursing home. There are cultures older then ours that sacrifice everything for there elders. I might have more time for myself if I didn't have to schedule things about doctor visits and such. But then I remember that she is my grandmother and what kind of horrible wicked person I would be if I allowed such thing to happen, or even for even thinking of it.
Carrie
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