Mary Scovell

Mary has had a few rough days and is still in the ICU. The entire staff of several different kinds of doctors are baffled and have been running various new tests. The reports from tests yesterday are: MRI, MRA, and an EEG are all negative. The doctors are going to run a few more blood tests and another lumbar puncture to see if there are any other infections or if the cancer has spread to the brain. Her sodium count has come down a bit and they thought that that may be the cause of her lethargy. The neurologist used the term, multifactorial, meaning that the lethargy must be coming from many different sources. Mary's right eye was in a fixed position yesterday but is responding to light today and is no longer fixed. The doctors decided that some medicine that they were using got into the eye by mistake because of the breathing mask that Mary was wearing. She is no longer using the mask. Diarrhea has lessened and fevers are low without using any medication for the fever. Keep the good thoughts and prayers coming.

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