Hi Janell, thank you for reaching out and checking on me and my mom. I’m right now in a hospital in Bulgaria as her caregiver. Unfortunately things are going differently than what we expected. It took us time till she got the surgery of the thoracic artery aneurysm because we had to consult with an oncologist for the lung adenocarcinoma radiation therapy recommendation. They refused doing radiation because the aneurysm and the cancer were next to each other and is very dangerous to start with radiation so we went to consult with a vascular surgeon , who sent us to cardiac surgery for consultation. Finally she had the surgery but she got a hemorrhagic stroke at the time of the surgery or right after it because wasn’t recovering as expected. They did CT to discover the new issue. After 3-4 days she woke up, after few days extubated but with right body weakness. At the time she was in ICU her right foot became painful, swelling with discoloration of the toes. Now even giving her medication for improving circulation of the foot the toes are turning dark purple and reddish-blue on the rest of the foot. I’m very worried about how that can end up because honestly I don’t see improvement but worsening. Another thing that worries me a lot is that soon I have to go back to US because my leave of absence from work will exhaust soon and l have to leave her in the unknown what is next. Sorry I stretched out so much but this is the situation we are in.
Best regards,
Veselka