Colleen: a thoroughly-scanned Cat

[mdlbear]

When I saw Colleen this morning she was just being wheeled down to Radiology for one more CAT scan to make sure there wasn't anything they missed on the previous one (and the three MRIs). Barring anything obvious, the best guess is that what's keeping her from walking is the shock to her nervous system, and that she'll recover given a week or two of intensive physical therapy. (In the vicinity of 3 hours/day.)

She's eating solid food as of yesterday (she had a ham sandwitch for lunch), got a visit from the neurologist at 5pm, and seemed very optimistic when I saw her last night and this morning. More this evening or tomorrow when we get the scan results back. Meanwhile they're looking for a slot at a suitable resort rehab facility.

Comments

[phillip2637.livejournal.com]

Skimming a little, I thought for a moment she'd had a ham sandwich for lunch and a neurologist at 5pm ... a good appetite indeed!

All the best.

[mdlbear]

She might have bitten the neurologist's head off if she'd been feeling sufficiently annoyed...

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

You are both still in my prayers for a smooth recovery. Y'all have been through so much!

[brmj.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that she's doing better.

[obsessivewoman.livejournal.com]

I spoke to Colleen today. She sounds so much better. I'm so relieved for you.

[ranch101.livejournal.com]

You guys certainly deserve good news! Glad to hear she's eating and feeling upbeat.

[hawklady.livejournal.com]

*hugs* glad to hear it.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

If her digestive tract is doing its job again, can her feet be far behind? ;-)

[mdlbear]

One can damned well hope.

doing better

[jaycoyote.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad things are going better.

BTW, I posted to you a while back while confused re Meglimir and Flowercat. Sorry about that, got you and SammyD confoozed.

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who was hospitalized when she fell while getting out of her bathtub. In the hospital, she lost feeling in her legs and lasted that way for a few weeks, facing PT and long-term rehabilitative therapy, until her doctors changed her medication, and realized that the loss of sensation & locomotion in her legs was from swelling due to a side effect of something they had been giving her in the hospital.

[mdlbear]

We're pretty sure this comes from a reaction to the local anesthetic used in the epidural. That's been gone for a week and a half now, but apparently she metabolizes drugs in that family very, very slowly.

So, yeah.