{"id":6544,"date":"2015-11-23T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:49:28","slug":"palette-of-cerebral-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=6544","title":{"rendered":"Palette of cerebral fluid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before this aneurysm happened, I was playing with color palettes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m still seeing in bands of colors. When I look around my ICU room, I even see the variety in the whites and grays, limited palette though they are.<\/p>\n

My cerebral fluid, though, is a palette in a bag. And those bands of color are a visible sign of my healing.<\/p>\n

\"cerebral<\/p>\n

When I arrived at Emory on Sunday night, the doctors put a drain into my head for that fluid. The pressure and pollution of clotted blood and fluid buildup\u00a0is what kills people who have a brain hemorrhage.<\/p>\n

I didn’t know that the brain continuously makes new fluid. So, if the bloody fluid is drained off at a slow rate, the new fluid gets made and replaces it.<\/p>\n

The bag that holds the drained fluid is handy because it allows doctors to sample the fluid for antibodies and infection, as well as getting a visual indication of blood levels in the cerebral fluid.<\/p>\n

Mine started off pretty red but quickly became just orange, because normal cerebral fluid is yellow. The bag is a visible palette of progress.<\/p>\n

I’ve watched this week as the color in my fluid bag separated into gradations of pale red, pink, orange, and yellow-orange. [The featured image misses the mark because it’s not based on my bag, but an educational illustration. It looks more like an autumn colors palette…]<\/p>\n

When the color is right – no more red or pink – the drain will come out, and I can go home. They’ve done two CT scans in the past 24 hours, and there will be another one tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I had a really rough weekend. It’s very hard to manage the pain.\u00a0 Brain chemistry is quite complicated as it turns out. Despite the fact that I am feeling trashed, the doctors assure me that I am making very good progress in terms of the brain gradually taking over its normal functions.<\/p>\n

If all is clear, the drain comes out. Then a day after that, I can go to a regular floor. Then – home.<\/p>\n

Just a few more days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before this aneurysm happened, I was playing with color palettes. I’m still seeing in bands of colors. When I look around my ICU room, I even see the variety in the whites and grays, limited palette though they are. My cerebral fluid, though, is a palette in a bag. And those bands of color are … read more Palette of cerebral fluid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[485,639,493,641,355,640,426,504],"class_list":["post-6544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-aneurysm","tag-blood","tag-brain","tag-cerebral","tag-color","tag-fluid","tag-palette","tag-recovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6861,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions\/6861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}