update thursday--high noon

from davey:

Just saw the neurologist. Let me just say that Dr. Carlstrom is not a man of many words. We usually get about 2 mins of his time and half of that conversation is him walking out the door. Don't get me wrong, he appears very competent (not that I would really know if he was a quack), but he mostly says a few things and is off.

He has reviewed the MRI and it was not an aneurysm nor was it an AVM, the two most likely suspects for bleeding in the brain. The Dr says that its basically a dissection of her arteries in her head that have ruptured and caused the bleeding. He says that this is incredibly rare (neither he nor anyone else that he knows has ever seen it, and there isn't anything in the literature either).

He said that vision and speech are going to be her biggest struggles due to the location of the bleed. This is not a surprise to us as we have seen Katie struggle with these two things the most. So keep praying about these things.

Here is the cool part...

Toby, the nurse that has been following the blog and is a solid Christian, pulled Carlstrom aside outside the room after he left and asked him what he thought about the progress. He told her that Katie absolutely should be dead, they are all completely amazed that she is alive let alone talking and looking around. They have no explanation or answer for any of this. Don't doubt for a second that your prayers are making a huge difference and that ultimately we have the answer.

So, they are going to take out her stitches and staples and continue to let the wound heal. He has once again pushed off the replacing of the skull piece to next week. Pray that God would do a creative miracle as I want all the Dr's to really be brought to their collective knees.