Thanks Mark . . . I wish I had known about the CTScan being most beneficial when done a few days after the accident. His scan was done less than 2 hours after the accident. I am the one that requested the MRI last week and our Pediatrician agreed to order it. The neuron radiologist came out and explained the findings.
He actually called our neurologist to discuss what was found. Pretty sure the ego of our concussion specialist neuro was bruised a bit by the phone call. He did not know I had a MRI ordered. We have heard nothing from our neuro, guess he is fine to wait for our end of May appointment.
I have an appointmemt with my neurologist that follows me for MS. I will talk to them about my son's MRI. It makes me sick to read his report.
The foci "blood" found is within almost every area of the left side of his brain along with near the interpeduncular cistern of the midbrain in the midline, in the right thalamus and a whole lot more that I am still trying to understand. I do have him scheduled for two days this week being evaluated by our NeuroPsychologist. Hoping to have a better understanding and a plan put in place by the end of this week.
Also will be finding a new Neurologist for him. Just having a hard time understanding why his neuro never felt it necessary for further scans. My son continues to struggle cognitively and his memory recall is a mess. The kid with a 4.0+ with little effort is now doing everything he can to get B's for his final aymester of High School. We even put him on ADD meds in January to help him focus in class. It took him almost four hours to complete his college math placement test. We had to do it in small sections of time, with his sister who is currently in trig help him enough that his math knowledge was triggered due to his battle with memory recall. Hoping he can get a break soon . . . it has been a rough senior year.
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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
MammaMia,
Welcome to NeuroTalk. I'm sorry to hear about your son.
The research I have read says that bleeds from the initial impact show up on CT Scans best at 72 hours post injury. This is enough time for a slow bleed to become large enough to be discernible and before it starts to be absorbed.
His neuro or a neuro-radiologist should be able to explain this for your son's situation.
Pushing him in rehab will not cause more damage. But, pushing too hard can be ineffective by causing stress that impedes progress. There is difference between rehabbing after a coma where brain functions become dormant and need effort to wake them up and the issues common to concussions. Coma based rehab is often considered successful when the patient reaches the level of function that concussion patients start at. From that point, further recovery will likely be much slower.
The migraines comment has been mentioned before. Some neuros do not believe concussions can have long term deficits and blame residual struggles on other causes.
So, how is your son doing ? What are his current struggles ? Has he had a Neuro Psychological Assessment done ?
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