Update on Brittany

So many firefighter and Frenship people are asking, so this is what we know as of a conversation with her mother-in-law today.
- Brittany will be having MRI's every day for comparisons.
- There are 4 teams of doctors caring for her (infectious disease, neurologist, etc). They are diligently working to find out what is going on.
- She has a very big bleed on the top of her brain. They seem hopeful that it is not getting bigger, but they are concerned it is not absorbing back into the body.
- She has 2 fairly large blood clots on the back of her brain. They are concerned that these clots have blocked blood to tissue in the brain and what damage this might have caused. They are unable to give her blood thinners to help with the clot because they do not want the bleed to spread on the top of the head. It is a very delicate situation.
- She still is not having movement on the left side of her body. They are not sure that this is permanent, but they need the swelling in her brain to go down before they can tell for sure.
- They have done an sonogram of her heart and do not see any holes. They have also checked her legs for more blood clots and have not found any.
- Yesterday they brought her out of sedation a little and were able to get from her that her headaches were a little better. They are not sure if this is true or her perception because of the medicine, but her headaches do seem better.
- The breathing and feeding tubes are aggravating her and she wants them out! She is pulling at them and they make her uncomfortable. This is causing her blood pressure to rise. So they are going to try and take out the breathing tube this weekend to see if this will make her less agitated and therefore decrease her blood pressure.
- She is now completely sedated and they do not want her to have any stimulation at all. Cayton can't even touch her or talk to her. This is very hard on him, as you can imagine. When she responds her blood pressure sky rockets so they have to take out all stimulation.
- They are doing an EEG to check the swelling in her brain and to see if it is any better.
- Laykin is doing much better on formula. He still has the bad reflux and everything, but he is doing much better now that he is eating.
- This is not going to be a quick journey. With the brain stuff aside and only looking at recovering from the viral meningitis, the doctors are thinking it could be 6 months before Brittany is back on her feet and able to care for Laykin alone. The doctors really still do not have a clue of what is really going on inside of her. They are working very hard to figure it out. The family is also going to be making decisions about what these 6 months might look like for them and for Laykin. Please keep this process in your prayers too.