Surgery Setbacks

This morning, Trenna woke up and sat at the kitchen table with Emily and Dad. While they were talking, she forgot a word and couldn't think of it for about 10 minutes. When Emily asked her if she'd like ice for her drink, Trenna couldn't understand her multiple times. Emily asked her if she knew who my dad was, and sometimes she knew, sometimes she didn't. Then she started having a seizure, during which, she bit her tongue pretty badly. Alex called for an ambulance, and she was taken to the ER.

At about 9 a.m., I got a text message from my dad saying that she was being rushed to the ER, and that she might have had a stroke or seizure. He wasn't sure. In order to give her a CT Scan, they had to sedate her (I think because she was still having seizures?).

After the CT, the doctors said it wasn't from a brain bleed or stroke, but they still didn't know what was going on. They've been waiting for her to wake up and become a little more coherent, but she is having issues with short-term memory loss. She'll wake up, say her tongue hurts, ask what happened, and then fall back asleep. Moments later, she'll do the same thing.

The doctors have been on the phone with Dr. Black's office all day, and they've decided to transfer her to St. Jude's Hospital by 3 p.m. This is good because it means they don't think it's serious enough to transfer her back to Cedars Sinai for more intensive monitoring!

Please pray for her and for our family. This is a pretty scary day.


-Shannon