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momwolf is spending more of the day awake, but her thinking is still not clear. She is able to hold a conversation, but I catch her confabulating (this is a professional way of saying "she makes things up to fill in gaps in her memory she doesn't understand"). The docs are definitely confirming a left frontal-parietal stroke, however, it seems relatively minor. She is not showing any problems with visual-spatial perception, and she is able to add numbers together without difficulty (apparently that's where math hangs out). They were hoping to discharge her to a nursing home today, but a last minute CT scan got in the way of the plans. The neurologist wanted to make sure that she is not bleeding into her brain, since one of the meds they want to put her on for discharge is a blood thinner. That's the kind of trade-off I'm having to decide on ... a blood thinner could increase the risk of another stroke, however, it can also reduce it, because thinner blood will get through her pretty much occluded heart vessels and improve function of her heart.
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