Patricia’s Story

Site created on July 16, 2021



If you’re here it’s because you know and love our beautiful mother Pat and due to the overwhelming outpouring of love and support she has garnered from friends and family, we wanted to provide a single space to share with everyone this unexpected arduous journey she has been on and update you all with new information as it comes.

Pat has been battling a ongoing sinus infection for most of this year. She had been seeing her doctors to try to resolve it and was treating it with antibiotics. Last week she started having bad headaches and developed cellulitis in her eyelid, and was put on more antibiotics by her doctors. On Tuesday morning 7/13/21 she didn’t get up and do her usual morning routine. She was discovered still in bed with a high fever, disoriented with limited verbal communication. She was taken to the hospital via ambulance and admitted. The hospital ran CT scans, X-rays and did bloodwork over the course of Wednesday. They found that she had pneumonia and that she was septic. They then conducted a MRI on Thursday and they found that all of her sinuses were severely infected and that she also had meningitis and abscesses on her frontal lobes. They transferred her to a new hospital and scheduled surgery for Friday morning.

She had a 2 part surgery, first Endoscopic Sinus Surgery and Bilateral Frontal Craniotomy for Inter-cranial abscess.

Due to the nature of these procedures, covid protocols and the long road to recovery ahead, we are not sharing the details of her hospital or room number with anyone except for immediate family. We know how much you love our mom and both of us and appreciate to the bottom of our hearts, all of the offers for help navigating this. When we have a better grasp of what we are dealing with and what tangible needs will need to be met, we will reach out and ask for it with gratitude, but for the moment we are only asking for your continued prayers and love to surround our mother as we continue on these next steps. It’s going to be quite a journey and we will keep you updated here as much as we can as we prioritize in our mom’s healing.


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Newest Update

Journal entry by Rhiannon Scott

Hi,

Just wanted to provide latest update. We went to a couple of doctors appointments today. We saw mom’s Primary care provider- mom has been her patient for 20 years and she was all over her and offered any help that she can give. We also saw the infectious disease doctor and they have reset her antibiotic time line back to 6 weeks based on the surgery she had on Monday. We will stay on IV medications until the beginning of October. The doctor was pleased with the antibiotics that she is currently on and assumed that the new abscess was growing but not visible when we had the craniotomy performed. The good news is that they have not been able to grow anything from the sample that they drained on Monday. Fingers crossed that they won’t!!
We will go back the first week of October to see what’s next. We have also had to move out neuro surgeon appointment to the end of September. 
Mom is still doing well with her language. The last few days she has been really tired. I think her brain is ready to heal and needs the rest to do so. We have been taking it easy and relaxing. She is doing well with the stairs even though she is still a lil weak. So for now we just continue with our therapies and work on her strength and endurance. Hopefully we have made it past the bumps and now it’s smooth sailing. 
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