Update on our friend who had a stroke

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I updated last week when he was taken by ambulance to the hospital. At that point we we're left with a lot of questions and there was a lot of unknown. I really wish that I could tell you that he's doing better and is home. But that is not the case, at least not yet. I can't remember if I shared that he suffered from several seizures. But he did. He tore or ruptured or damaged the artery in his neck and that is was caused the initial stroke. We aren't sure how the artery was damaged. He has since had a couple good days and some fairly bad days. His right side is still very week. Wednesday he was up and was able to mimic the doctor, and when asked where his mom was he could point and grunt. However yesterday there was a set back, he has spiked a very high fever and they had to put him in an ice bath to bring the fever down. He was not responsive or mimicking his doctors yesterday. Which is not the news we wanted. They performed a spinal tap because of the fever/virus and they will have the results tomorrow. So the news I got earlier was not the news we wanted. I was hoping that he would continue to imrpove so they could move him to the rehab facility and they could start rehabbing him. But this set back has pushed that back further. We are praying, and holding on to hope. Hopefully the results of the spinal tap will give the doctors answers and a direction to start in to get him healing and getting better.