After Marie's focal seizure in October 2000, the neurologist started her on anti-seizure medication. They first tried Tegretol. After a short usage the enzyme levels in her liver began to elevate. She was switched to Dilantin. Again, she had the same reaction. The numerologist wanted her to stay on an anti-seizure medication so seizures wouldn't become a problem. She had so many other things going on, seizures would have been very serious.
They put Marie on Phenobarbital. This medication seemed to work with no lever side effects. Instead, it appeared to make her dazed. It masked her progress. Was she getting better with her memory issues or was the medication keeping her confused and not very responsive. She became somewhat angry, but she didn't know why. In addition to the anti-seizure medication, she was also on steroids to control brain swelling. Don't forget, she had all those laxatives going into her at the same time.
All the trauma on the brain from surgery, the seizures, the medications, the changing spinal fluid drainage level, no wonder she took a four day sleep. No wonder she couldn't move her bowels. Her body seemed to be shutting down. Maybe it couldn't take anymore. Maybe it was protecting itself. After three weeks in the intensive care unit she was ready to move to a regular room. But, she was now facing intensive rehab. Walking, talking, thinking, interacting with others. That was all still ahead of her.
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