Monday, February 28th

The next morning, Monday, was a little more positive - his blood pressure had come down some and he had also said the words 'I know'. He also would use his right arm some to wave and was flexing his fingers.

However, he took a slight turn for the worse and had a seizure and stopped breathing. The nurses called code blue and were able to stop the seizure. Although he started breathing on his own, the breaths were not strong and they decided to put him on a respiratory ventilator to breath for him. They also had to put him on a sedative (propofol) to sleep because he would be too agitated with the breathing tube down his throat into his lungs.

Since he was a on ventilator they could not do the MRI. They did do another CAT scan.Through this CAT scan, they were finally able to see the stroke near the left/back side of his brain in the Parietal Lobe. This affects speech, memory, and sight. They also said there was a very small old stroke on the left side of his brain. They are not sure when this occurred, but it must have been minor enough to were Frank did not even know it had happened and was functioning normally. They also performed other various tests.

The goal for the day was to monitor him and keep him on the ventilator and make sure he did not seizure again. The next day they would want to take him off of it and possibly do the MRI.