Jodi has a slight infection, possibly related to a bladder infection. She is starting to get a little depressed about the road ahead. She is starting speech therapy today and will most likely be moved down to the rehab floor tomorrow.
On Thursday, November 29th, Jodi became dizzy and passed out. This had also happened to her one week earlier while shopping. She was taken to Davis hospital. Throughout the day on Thursday, Jodi started to lose her ability to swallow and to speak. At about 4pm, they ran an MRI and MRV and determined that Jodi had a massive blood clot at the base of her brain. They life-flighted her to the University of Utah where a team was waiting to perform emergency surgery to remove the clot. Her Dr. was in Los Angelas at the time and after arriving at the University of Utah, she began the surgery. During the surgery, she, (the Dr.) determined that the blood clot was too large and the vein too weak to allow her to remove the clot. She performed a procedure that was entirely revolutionary and experimental in an effort to save Jodi's life. She placed a several stints in the vein at the base of Jodi's brain to allow blood to that part of the brain. Miraculously, Jodi survived the surgery. Everything past that night is a miracle to her Dr., and our entire family. This blog chronicles her progress since that time.
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