This morning started off with Archie going for another CT angiogram. He went for 2 walks this afternoon. The doctor came in around 3:30 pm with the results of the CT. He said we have some good news and bad news. The good news is that some of the early vasospasms are lessening. The bad news is that there is a new vasospasm in the Basilar vessel(the main blood vessel that supplies the blood to the brain stem). There is going to be another CT angiogram scheduled for Sunday to see how the spasms in the basilar vessel are doing. If the vasospasms are getting worse then they will schedule another angiogram where they will go through his groin to look at the spasms and if necessary do an angioplasty while in there. My definition of an angioplasty: it is where they put a small balloon in his blood vessels to keep them open (wikipedia definition can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angioplasty). Archie was bummed when he found out the news but he did much better than when he received Monday's news. He thought since the headache had been around for a day that the news would not be good. He of course did not expect that but overall he handled it well.
Just reminder that we are limiting visitors to 15 minute increments to ensure he does not have any overstimulation. He does still want to have some visitors because he does need the distraction from the monotony of just seeing me so please keep on coming because it brightens his day.
* Thank you Jennifer, Shane H, Mark Mackey, Corey and my dad for coming to visit Archie.
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