An unexpected turn of events

My oldest son had a migraine the other evening. He's never had them before, and it was preceded by numbness & tingling in his right arm & the right side of his face. Odd, but with a family history on both sides of migraines, not too odd.

Two nights later he tells me he woke up with a skull-splitting migraine and nausea. With 2 in 3 days' time, I called the doctor & scheduled an appointment, which was 2 days later. This morning. The doctor ordered a CT scan, which showed fluid on the brain, and we are now at the hospital awaiting a second CT tonight and surgery to drain the fluid in the morning. He had a brain bleed, with no known cause. No trauma, no bumps, no anything.

Everyone is stumped as to the cause, and lots of bloodwork is being done. There are a lot of questions & not many answers yet for why it happened, but thank heaven it has been found & isn't a tumor. I am trying to stay on the bright side, that will be best for all of us, I think.

Helen DeVos Children's Hospital staff & docs have been great, & he has a Wii for entertainment :)