more bad news

Ford did ok through the night but there was more bad news this morning. After taking a closer look at his head CT yesterday, they noticed that he not only has a completely occluded left jugular and BCV, but his right jugular is partially occluded too (might be the other way around, I'm bad with left/right). It would appear that this is the main source of our current pickle and does not bode well for his continued presence here amongst the living.

Although they gave him an appropriate dose of the clot busters yesterday they are worried it might be too little too late and have ordered an emergency trip to the cath lab in lieu of waiting to image the area for signs of improvement. Sometime this afternoon they will attempt to manually dilate the partially obstructed vessel, and possibly put in a stent, hoping they can open it up enough to get the blood moving out of his head.

The two major concerns now are that yesterday, after coming back from his second CT scan, Ford crashed and came pretty close to kicking the bucket. He is apparently reacting very badly to being handled right now and any intervention, no matter how innocuous, seems to push him over the edge. But, if they don't go ahead and try to open things up he is at serious risk of losing blood flow through both jugular veins and dying from cerebral ischema - which coincidentally, though circumstantially different, was the cause of our first son Emmett's death.

Stick that in your karma-pipe and smoke it.