Happy Mothers Day, Sort Of
So the husband and I got back from a concert on which he was along as friend-of-the-recording-engineer (a really good concert, too), and he calls his mother to wish her a happy Mom's Day, and apparently his brother is in the hospital with numbness and vomiting -- two of the symptoms my husband had when the blood vessel malformations (AVMs) in his brainstem were beginning to hemorrhage. Probably Kevin (my BIL) isn't havin the exact same thing, as the numbness is on both sides of his body instead of just one, and at least they *know* that Kevin has the same AVMs and what could be causing the problems. But it could be heralding several months of hell, and perhaps a permanent disability if they can't treat the AVMs. Supposedly ones in the higher cranium -- which is where Kevin's are -- don't cause the same neurological deficits, but of course they have their own price.
We can't reach them at the hospital -- Kevin has his phone turned off and his wife doesn't really like either me or David so we don't have her number. I'd really just like to know what's going on, y'know?
ETA: So, it turns out Kevin's had a double stroke, one in the brainstem and one in the rest of the cranium, and he's going in for surgery tomorrow. At least they know earlier, and medicine has advanced in the last decade. I'm not terribly religious, but I'll be praying for a safe surgery, and please do on my behalf, too.
We can't reach them at the hospital -- Kevin has his phone turned off and his wife doesn't really like either me or David so we don't have her number. I'd really just like to know what's going on, y'know?
ETA: So, it turns out Kevin's had a double stroke, one in the brainstem and one in the rest of the cranium, and he's going in for surgery tomorrow. At least they know earlier, and medicine has advanced in the last decade. I'm not terribly religious, but I'll be praying for a safe surgery, and please do on my behalf, too.