Friday 25th February 2011

Today we went to the hospital at 12pm, expecting to speak to a consultant after Lindseys CT scan.  Eventually at 5pm Dr Morris took us all into a room to discuss his findings.  The good news is, that there are no tumours anywhere in Lindseys body.  The bad news is, that she has 2 huge blood clots sitting in her pulmonary artery.  The 'clot buster' worked on the clot that caused Sundays cardiac arrest, but not on these.  Administering another clot busting drug is not an option, the risk of a bleed on the brain is too high.  Radiographers may have been able to remove the clots, but they are too far down, so now we are waiting to hear from the Cardiothorassic department as to whether or not they can do surgery to remove them. The scan showed that there are 2 areas of Lindseys brain which show deprivation of oxygen, however, these may not have been from the cardiac arrest (our diagnosis, not the doctors).  Dr Morris said that they were going to stop sedation, and let her wake, so they can fully assess whether or not there is damage to her brain, but later on, that was retracted, and she was sedated again because she has had such a traumatic day, with the CT scan, and procedures to measure the pressure in her heart.