May 3 Status Report - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

Just plain weird. Scary. Occasionally mildly entertaining. Mostly scary. And really, really weird.

We know he's sensitive to Adavan. He'd already had a couple of doses this week. While I was gone this afternoon, he started having multiple mini-seizures. They appear almost narcoleptic, where he nods off in the middle of an action or thought. It may be a remnant of the previous strokes, but it's more likely (to me, anyway) a symptom of the multitude of drugs and conditions he's fighting. His CAT scan earlier in the week showed some brain changes, but they were in the nature of an equilibrium shift, not infractions or ruptures.

The immediate treatment to stop the seizures was a double dose of Adavan. Now he's a blabbering (free association) mess. That would be OK (we're almost used to it), but he's also hallucinating some scary stuff. Tubes become snakes, and hands become claws. He sees something scary and shrieks in agony. He blabbers in full sentences with full vocabulary, so intelligence and motor function are intact. Now that he's back on Adavan, the peripheral vision issues are also back (but we now know those thinsg resolve when the dose wears off).

Tomorrow they are going to do another MRI and another CAT scan. Chances are that the scans won't identify a culprit, but we'll see. I keep saying the same thing - he's intact but they need to "twiddle the knobs" of medications to get him stable. I'd better be correct.