BRAIN STEM STROKE 10/07

ON 10/9 07 MY BRO WHO WAS A 56 Y/O B/M  SUFFERED A BRAIN STEM STROKE WITH CAROCTIED ARTERY OCCULUSION. A CT, ANGIOGRAPH AND MRI WERE PERFORMED. WE WERE  INFORMED THAT THERE WAS INFRACT TO THE BRAIN STEM AND LT SIDE OF HIS BRAIN. THEY ATTEMPTED TPA I.V HOWEVER HIS B/P WAS TO HIGH HE WAS THE LIFE FIIGHTED TO A SECOND HOSPITAL WHERE THEY ATTEMPTED THE ANGIOGRAPH AND STENT PLACEMENT THRU THE FEMORAL ARTERY . THE RESULTS WERE POOR THEY WHERE UNABLE TO OPEN THE CAROTIED ARTERY DUE TO SEVER BLOCKAGE THE MRI CONFIRMED LT SIDE BRAIN INFARCT W ITH COMPRESSED VENT THEY ALSO PONTED OUT THAT AS A RESPONSE TO THE INFRACT HE EXP CEREBRAL EDEMA,   AND NO MEDS WOULD BE OF USE TO CONTROL IT. THEY STATED THEY COULD PERFORM A  HEMICRAINECTOMY BUT DID NOT RCOMMEND IT ST IT USUALY LT PT WITH A POOR OUTCOM, SUCH AS PVS, VENT DEPENDANT, BED SORES , PEG TUB AND LITTLE COGNITIVE ABILITY. THEY STATED HE WOULD NOT SURVIE LONGER THAN  2-3 DAYS, HE PASSED AWAY IN 4. I WONDER, ALTHOUGH MY BRO LOC WAS ALTERED,(SIMI CON) MY  BRO RESPONED WHEN HIS NAME WAS CALLED AND FOLLOWED INSTRUCTION FROM SQUEEZING MY HAND WHEN ASKED TO ATTEMPTING TO TURN IN THE DIRECTION OF MY VOCIE  SHOULD I HAVE  INSISTED THAT THE DRS TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT PERFORMING THE SURGERY. ALSO MY SISTER DIED AT AGE 56 FROM AN MI WITH HX OF STROKE WITH NO DIFFICETS SHE ALSO HAD ANOP OCCULSION TO HER CAROCTIED ARTERIES