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Thursday, March 19, 2009

About Bree


I takes about 3 1/2 hours to get to Grand Junction, CO, from Nephi. Dad went down and spent the afternoon. While he was there, Bree had another seizure. When he got home tonight, he tried to call David but the phone was off. He said they both were tired, and since David was staying the night, perhaps they were both napping, but I think the hospital still may have been doing tests. Dad just called David's cell phone and not the room.

Just before Dad left, at 5 p.m., they were getting Bree ready to take her to have an MRI. They told them it would take about and hour before they would do the test. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) uses the magnetic properties of body tissues to create a detailed image of the brain. It takes about 45 minutes. When it is used for people with seizures, a certain protocol is followed, to be sure that there is a clear image of the areas of the brain where seizures are most likely to begin. 

Earlier they gave her an Electroencephalogram (EEG) to measures electricity in the brain (or brain waves). Electrodes are used to see if there are any seizures and/or any abnormalities that might lead to seizures. The doctors did not find anything wrong when they did that test. But, after that test she had another seizure.

Dad says the first seizure happened when everyone was asleep. Bree was up with Caydin and felt her arm go numb. She went to her mom's room and woke her before the seizure happened. The doctors at the nearby hospital were unable to stop or control the seizures so they sent her via air to St. Mary's hospital in Grand Junction. Dad says they have been keeping her quieted with medicine trying to keep things under control.

So she is in room 318 (or was, the nurse said they might move her) at St. Mary's in Grand Junction, CO.

I know you all love Bree, as I do, and are praying for her. I just worry that this might be some sort of flare up of the cancer she had as a child. I also pray that that is not the cause and that it is something simple. I have a friend at the temple, one of the 60 women I work with, who gets seizures whenever she gets a fever--even a low grade fever. I hope it is just something like that. The women has had this problem since she was a child and is 70 now. It is scary for her family but she just works to keep all fevers controlled.

Enough rambling. I love you all, M

New England Marriages Prior to 1700

Posted By: Barb McGee

Date Posted: Mar 19, 2009

Description: This is an excerpt from New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
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Date Taken: 7-23/2008

Place Taken: FHC-Houston

More About Bree

The doctors think that Bree has pseudoseizures. According to the medical dictionary, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES), or pseudoseizures are paroxysmal episodes that resemble and are often misdiagnosed as epileptic seizures. Paroxysmal nonepileptic episodes can be either organic or psychogenic. Syncope, migraine, and transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) are examples of organic, nonepileptic paroxysmal symptoms. The seizures are very real and involuntary. They may be harder to control because they do not respond to the usual non-seizure medications. There are treatments but, as of tonight, David had not learned from the doctors what those might be. They do have an around-the-clock nurse stationed in the room now and her observations may be helpful to the medical staff. David had been doing a lot of the care himself and was having a difficult time getting a stat crew into her room. He said they told him that it just seemed like a long time to him but he said it was a long time. Sometimes stress can be a trigger but the seizure response is much like a migraine, there are many different triggers and, I am supposing (but am not certain), it will take a bit of time for the doctors to find the stressors. This is an involuntary illness and the seizures cannot be controlled by strength of will. Given my choice of response, and I am certain Bree feels the same way, I would take migraines over this. LHT had experience with a friend who had seizures and he said it is obvious to him that Bree's are very much like his childhood friend's. He had epileptic seizures.

Helen wrote: Dearest family: thank you for the update. David's and Bree's names are on the prayer rolls of the 3 valley temples. On Monday I put them on the Draper Temple prayer roll. I did read in the paper that the Draper Temple is open for patrons starting Monday. You may have read in last weeks Church News- the Salt Lake Temple will be open on Mondays from 7 a.m.-11 a.m. starting the 6th of April. Enjoy the dedication tomorrow.

Thank you for keeping me informed. I am keeping Nanci informed by sending a copy of your e-mail to her. Please know David's, and Bree's names are on the prayer rolls of the 3 valley temples, on Monday I will put them on the Draper Temple also- I read an article in the paper that it will be open on Monday for patrons. You may have seen the article in the Church News Saturday last about the Salt Lake Temple will be open on Mondays from 7.a.m.-11 a.m. starting on Monday 6th April. Enjoy the dedication tomorrow. Love to each of you. Love Helen

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