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Brain Operation.

grandmoon — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:18:18 GMT

A good friend's husband had a aneurysm operated on Saturday and is now talking a load of rubbish and she is wondering how long this will last as it is scary for their daughter.

He has been talk about the number and types of guns he has (he has never owned any weapons)

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*mrgrizz* — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:20:55 GMT

6 and three quarter days.

seriously sorry for your friend. but do you really think someone here can answer that?

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kopenhagen5 — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:28:07 GMT

Best to talk with the neurosurgeon.

And maybe explain because of the operation it can put pressure on parts of the brain for a while therefore patients often talk as if in dreams. Some can even talk in a foreign language that is not native to them.

It is common and usually part of the healing process.

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j*oono — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:32:37 GMT

Do you know whether he had it clipped or did they use a coil?

Mine was clipped and I don't really remember about the first few days and whether I was talking rubbish but if he is like me, then my words would come out jumbled at times for at least a week but getting better each day.

It's only been two days so far so things should improve very soon. Mine happened just before Easter a couple of years ago and I couldn't get the words Easter eggs out properly. I was calling them something like collateral damage!

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horizon1907 — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:34:02 GMT

Sorry to hear about your friends husband. Has she spoken with the Doctors about this. ( I trust that she has ) Strange this happen after Trauma to your Brain. It must be very scary for the family. The Doctors & OT's etc do amazing work. 😞 Hope things sort themselves out and he make a great recovery. It may just take time and lots of therapy. Slightly off the subject. I recently read somewhere, that a man who was in a Coma for, I think 10 years, suddenly woke up and can now speak many languages fluently. How bizarre is that ?????

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grandmoon — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:40:16 GMT

Yes she has spoken to the Drs and been told it could take between a couple of days to a few weeks for him to return to a normal thought pattern. We were hoping someone here may have had some first hand experience.

While he was a work on Friday afternoon he felt like someone had hit him on the back of the head with a very large hammer. He said something to a workmate who took one look at him and called the ambulance.

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the*scarlet*pimpernel — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:48:43 GMT

He's very lucky he had a quick thinking colleague.

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mtnlane — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 04:50:54 GMT

See j*oono's post 4 OP - she has had 'first-hand' experience

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j*oono — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:03:22 GMT

I'm wearing my invisibility cloak Laney 😄

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lionrose.7 — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 05:46:52 GMT

My best friend had the same thing and was calling her pillows hand bags.

Took a couple of weeks for her to say the right names for things, poor guy I know what my friend went through, if she gets a head ache she is still frightened.

She got up one morning and did not have any balance and a bad head ache that is how she found out she had a problem, so glad she went to the doctors straight away.

hugs to your friend and her husband XXX

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freddie*rooster — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:37:03 GMT

My SIL was talking martian talk cracked us all up

My Brother had a colloid cyst he was found unconscious in his unit after being missed for 3 days. After his surgery he thought every person who walked past his Hospital bed was Bart Cummings. The machines they had him hooked up to were making noises, he though those noises were coming from horse stables down below his bed where they were making minature horse shoes?????????? He had never had anything to do with race horses.

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debra9275 — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:54:41 GMT

Joono, I do remember your frustration at not being able to put words together properly typing as well. From memory it was for a few weeks, then all of a sudden it all came together again.

I was amazed at how well you did considering what you'd been through

So OP, I think it will take a little time & patience & a chat to the doctor for some advice is a good idea

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lloydslights — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 06:56:23 GMT

Not to lighten grandmoons understandable anxiousness at this time. But it looks as though you will be sharing laughter in the future about this episode.

I would explain to the daughter and any child in a situation like this, the facts as you know them. Many a child begins their discovery of a possible occupation with experiences such as this.

DEB

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j*oono — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:07:10 GMT

Freddie, I remember one day my sister looking at me with a really worried look on her face because I was telling her that I had to move Nannas outdoor loo to Manhatten instead of London.

Then I realised she thought I was totally bonkers. Luckily I had a photo on my phone to show her. I was talking about the dolls house and I only had a backdrop of Manhatten so I used that.

Deb, and sorry Grandmoon, but even now I still have to read my posts three times in case I have repeated sentences and got my words muddled. I'm good now really though.

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ashjoma — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:09:26 GMT

A couple of days to a few weeks sounds right.

There is swelling there, brain surgery is always tricky and also especially for an older person, confusion after an anaesthetic is not uncommon.

When my father had surgery last year, he awoke very very confused, climbing out of the bed, talking nonsense, pulling out drains, wanting me contacted at an old address which he did not remember correctly anyway.

Dad thought I had been killed in a car accident when he saw his own bandages.

I would suggest that the family try to do a roster for someone to sit with him until things settle.

My father was calm and okay with me there but the minute I left, became very distressed and confused.

He had a fall trying to get out of his chair and needed stitches to his face.

He lost his hearing aid and upper partial plate and insisted a hand came around the curtain and stole them.

Things took about 10 days to settle with the first 3 days the worst, with me having to go in and sit with him and calm him,

I also would help with washing, dressing and feeding. Which helped the staff and calmed my father.

.

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debra9275 — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:11:40 GMT

Nah, you're doing OK Joono, proud of you xx

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j*oono — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:13:58 GMT

Thanks Deb. You all helped me tremendously too.

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grandmoon — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:50:59 GMT

Thanks ashjoma

Friends hubby sounds a bit like your father, I am more concerned about the effect it is having on his daughter, the poor kid spent her fifteenth birthday yesterday sitting with him. He wants to go outside for a smoke which of course he can't and is getting very angry.

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lionrose.7 — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 03:08:43 GMT

I think at fifteen she will be old enough to under stand her poor father has had brain surgery and is not him self.

Must be hard on her at that age and nice of her to spend her birthday with her father.

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grandmoon — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 04:40:03 GMT

I think her main concern is that he won't remember her and also he will be very violent, as that is how he is talking now.