So while in Rexburg the Doctors found slight hemorrhaging in Baylee's frontal lobe of her brain. They thought that was the cause of the loss of motor skills and it is NEVER a good thing to have bleeding on the brain. Apparently Baylee was born with a few blood vessels clumped together and one of them started bleeding because of it. In that case it was only a matter of time before that happened. So they life-flighted her and her mother down to SLC Primary Children's hospital. My brother then picked up his other daughter and drove down. The understanding in Rexburg was that she would be rushed into surgery to stop the bleeding.
Once they got to SLC at the hospital, a kind Cousin Michael, Baylee's Great Grandpa Coombs and Matt were there to give her a blessing. They did so and we waited for more news. The Neurologist said that YES the bleeding was a problem but NOT the cause of her loss of motor skills. I should say that Baylee is still functional, she knew who I was and who my husband and Grandpa were when she saw us, she can still smile and talk like nothing is wrong, she just cant walk or really sit up very long by herself. I will also add, having taken my own child to Primary Children's that the Doctors up there, know their stuff!
Today they are doing more tests on Baylee, the Doctors believe the cause of all this is a tumor somewhere. He tried to find it with out a full body CAT scan with no luck. The reason she is loosing her motor skills is because her body is releasing a chemical to fight to Tumor and it is affecting her neurons negatively. I guess this is very rare situation but the Doctor there reviewing Baylee's case has treated 2 other patients with the same thing. Things are very optimistic as this point for hopefully finding the tumor today, of course surgery to remove the tumor, and her recovery will be 100%. The Doc said whether it's a couple weeks, a couple months or a year, she'll be back. She will have to go through physical therapy to help her remember how to walk etc. but I have a feeling Baylee wont need much help there. My guess is in a couple weeks she'll be as good as gold.
As for right now, H and Brit are waiting for the team of Neurologists to come in and talk with them before the CAT scan. Baylee is in good spirits this morning.
Matt and I have been watching Laycee while her parents are up at the hospital with Baylee.
Thank you so much to everyone for your thoughts and prayers, she isn't "out of the woods" yet but getting very close and we are all hopeful for a speedy recovery!
2 comments:
Glad to hear the update. Was thinking of lil Baylee all night. Praying for your family.
Wow! Thank goodness things are looking good. How scary would that be?
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