jOYCE’s Story

Site created on June 20, 2019

Welcome to our CaringBridge website. We are using it to keep family and friends updated in one place. We appreciate your support and words of hope and encouragement. Thank you for visiting. On June 19th, as mom was cleaning her van she ended up calling for help because she had sharp pains in her head and neck. Lisa and I attempted to get her in the seat of the van but were unsuccessful and we decided to call the ambulance. When the ambulance arrived they asked her a few questions and that is when she lost consciousness. The ambulance rushed her to Onamia where it was discovered she had bleeding on the brain and she was air lifted to North Memorial hospital in Robinsdale. She was then taken into surgery around 6pm to stop the bleeding which they were able to do successfully. They also put in a drain tube to relieve the pressure. As of today they have her off of the ventilator and she is able to follow simple commands and she was telling the nurses about her family and of course her fur babies. She is fighting all the way traveling this long journey ahead of her.

Newest Update

July 29, 2019

Journal entry by Jake Krueger —

They removed the ventilator yesterday morning and had her sitting up for a while when we were there. The physical therapist was in to do some exercise2 with her as well and in true mom fashion she thought he should go mow his lawn instead. They are going to be moving her out of ICU sometime today if everything goes well this morning.
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