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Strategies & Market Trends : Ted Warren's Investolator
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From: WEagle4/7/2022 9:01:57 PM
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Thanks everyone for your prayers for my wife.

We had a late start to surgery due to her INR being too high. INR is a measure of the effectiveness of Coumadin/Warfain in thinning the blood. She takes this because she has a mechanical mitral value around which clots can easily form with blood of normal thickness. The higher the INR, the thinner the blood. But the blood needs to be closer to normal thickness before a procedure that cuts on the body or there will be too much bleeding.

Anyway, INR got into the needed range and surgery took place, starting about 12:30 p.m. central. The surgeon discovered that there was no tumor. Instead, what was seen in the CT scans and MRI was discovered to be an infection-caused-abscess. It was cleaned up as much as possible and the scull was closed.

Infections in the brain don't usually start in the brain. They are brought there in the blood from somewhere else. Now the doctors must determine what the infection is and where in the body it resides. They will probably begin a number of antibiotics but when they figure all this out they will be better able to target the infection and make sure that it is wiped out.

Over all, this was a much better outcome than finding a tumor, even if it was not cancerous.

Thanks again.

WEagle
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