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[Pennyfarthing]

Sorry to hear about your mum.

[Katy]

Hope the results bring good news today honeybun, I'm sure you need lot of hugs right now

Katy x

[honeybun]

Well still no news from the doctors re the blood tests. I am a bit confused. She now says that her arm still feels heavy and cold and her left leg feels a bit strange. That says to me it could have been a little stroke.
She is markedly more confused than she has ever been before. Speach is fine but she keeps telling you something and then two minutes later asking the question she has just told you about it.
Then we go round in the same loop all over again. Then the next minute she is perfectly lucid.
Sis will speak to the doctor later today I think. But as to whether it's been a heart attack I really don't know. Certainly something has happened.


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[Milliemoo7]

When you mentioned her heavy arm the first time that occurred to me as well HB.  Can she raise both arms?  If she smiles is it lopsided?  There are some other stroke indicators too. 

[Rowan]

It occurred to me too, could have been TIA, I think you must be on your guard HB.

[honeybun]

Will the blood tests show this or would she need other tests?

Sis seems to be reluctant to speak to the GP and I can't figure out why. It will just cause trouble if I call so I have to sit back and say nothing.

She is favouring her right arm at the moment and I did not see her walking today as she was in bed. Her walking is very bad anyway so it would be difficult to tell. Her face looks the same and her speech is not slurred it's the veering off into confusion and back again that worries me.
Confused as ever.


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[Rowan]

I think the only way to be certain is a MRI scan.

[honeybun]

Not a chance of her having one of those. Just need to keep an eye on her. She is a tough old bird. She must be to have got to 91.


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[littleminnie]

If it was a heart attack it will definitely show up in the blood test.  Not sure about a stroke though. X

[Taz2]

The "in and out" phases could be to do with the blood supply to the brain Honeybun. It was this that caused my mum's vascular dementia.  People, like my mum, can have a series of undetected mini strokes (TIAs) which don't really give any symptoms apart from an intermittent loss of memory and ability to see things as they really are. I am not saying this is what your mum has but you might find this helpful http://www.helpguide.org/elder/vascular_dementia.htm  just to see if you can recognise anything leading up to her current illness.

Taz xxx

[catdude]

So sorry to hear this. TIA and / or blood supply to the brain as Taz has said was what came to my mind. Hope you get some answers soon.

[honeybun]

The blood tests have come back as inconclusive and also the ECG. The family GP who spoke to my sister thinks now it could possibly have been a small stroke. She is to have bloods redone and another ECG.
I spoke to her earlier and she says her arm still feels heavy and cold. I asked about her leg and she could not remember anything about that except it also feels "tired".
She is still zoning in and out a bit but is better than she was.

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[Limpy]

Hope your mum is comfortable, and you all get some decent sleep tonight.

[Trey]

hello HB,  as I often do, I second Taz's thinking.  I've not heard of heavy or tired legs with heart attack.  A twenty minute CT scan should reveal stroke.   Sorry you continue to have worries with your Mum.  Please take care of you, too.