Hello,
This is Krisstina updating for Michelle.
Alicia has had a horrible day today.
Michelle said she was fine at 9 AM this morning and around 10:30 she started seizing. They took her to CT immediately. She had about 4 or 5 seizures. She had a seizure while in the CT machine. They had given her Ativan, Ativan is in a group of drugs called benzodiazepines (ben-zoe-dye-AZE-eh-peens). Ativan affects chemicals in the brain that may become unbalanced.
They brought her back to her room. Michelle actually called me while they were working on her during the first or second seizure, her oxygen went down to the mid 70's. I hurried out the door to be with her. At that point we were just waiting to hear what was on the CT. They came in and said she had a spot on her brain, it was a bit fuzzy but they were going to do more testing. They were planning a CT of the rest of her body, an MRI of the brain, a spinal tap, and tons of bloodwork. As they were looking around and checking her out they noticed her right side would not move. She was paralyzed on the right side until about 4 PM. She started moving and talking slowly but surely she was acting more like herself. Her pupils were unresponsive until around this time as well. She still is not the Alicia I know she is slurring a bit and her eyes are rolling back a little. We assume all these medications are the cause. They had given her a large amount of another anti-seizure medication and they said it may make her a bit loopy.

They are doing a CT tonight of the rest of her body to check for other spots of GVHD and a MRI tomorrow to get a more definitive picture of what this spot is.
They have been saying it could be a clot, GVHD, or a couple of other things. Since she has been dealing with the GVHD of the gut they are thinking that is what it is most likely to be.
Her blood gases were a bit off all day, they finally came down tonight, after a high pressure oxygen tube being in her nose. I left there about 1 hour ago and she was doing better, just very mad. She wants to eat and can't since she is getting the scans done. She was changed over to regular oxygen, since her levels came back better. So now it's just waiting. They will move her back to her room if she stays stable. They should know more answers tomorrow.
Thank you so much for checking in on Alicia and Michelle you have no idea how much that means to them. Michelle is very upset and would just like to ask "Please Pray for her"!

Thank you again,
Krisstina