{"id":421,"date":"2010-05-05T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2010-05-05T14:16:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T20:16:56","slug":"singer-bret-michaels-expected-to-be-among-20-percent-that-recover-from-special-brain-hemorrhage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waiting.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/singer-bret-michaels-expected-to-be-among-20-percent-that-recover-from-special-brain-hemorrhage.html","title":{"rendered":"Singer Bret Michaels Expected To Be Among 20 Percent That Recover From Special Brain Hemorrhage"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

\u00a0Rocker Bret Michaels is \u201cextremely lucky,\u201d being one of the minority of those who make a full recovery after having a subarachnoid hemorrhage, his doctor told reporters Tuesday.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cAt this point I can tell you that Mr. Michaels has been recently discharged,\u201d said Dr. Joseph Zabramski, the neurosurgeon who treated the singer.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cHe continues to receive therapies and we are monitoring his laboratories daily and his medications daily,\u201d the doctor said. \u201cHe is making a good recovery. I really expect that he will make a 100 percent recovery. He is one of those lucky people, the 20 percent who have a subarachnoid hemorrhage, who make a full and complete recovery.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Let\u2019s hope that Zabramski, part of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, is correct in his prognosis for the 47-year-old singer and reality TV star. The frontman for Poison most likely will be able to return to compete on \u201cCelebrity Apprentice,\u201d where he\u2019s been considered a frontrunner.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Zabramski didn\u2019t spare any of the medical details when he talked about Michaels, who was admitted to the hospital April 22 with a searing headache and neck pain. As it turned out, he had a dangerous brain hemorrhage.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0An edited transcript of Zabramski\u2019s remarks on Michaels\u2019 condition is posted on the Barrow facility\u2019s Web Site, and it offers a very explicit explanation of Michaels\u2019 treatment. http:\/\/www.stjosephs-phx.org\/Who_We_Are\/Press_Center\/206496<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Barrow is part of St. Joseph\u2019s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. Zabramski, perhaps a bit biased, called Barrow \u201cthe best center in the United States if you have a problem with your blood vessels.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0After coming to the emergency room and being evaluated, Michaels was admitted to the hospital and doctors immediately started tests to find out the cause of the bleeding in his brain and whether he had a ruptured aneurysm, according to Zabramski.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0He showed reporters a slide of a CAT scan that was performed on Michaels\u2019 brain, pointing out a white spot that he said was a blood clot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cThat is the blood that escaped from the vessels and clotted around the brain stem and that is what caused the severe headache and pain,\u201d Zabramski explained at the press conference in Phoenix. \u201cThe reason this is so important is that 15-20 percent of patients will die as a result of the initial hemorrhage. The other patients, the ones that survive, their prognosis depends on the amount of blood that is spilled and what the cause is.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Michaels also was given a series of angiograms, and they didn\u2019t detect any issues. \u201cThis is one of those rare instances in medicine where we are pleased not to be able to find out what caused a problem,\u201d Zabramski said.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Michaels was lucky because \u201che survived the brain hemorrhage, got to the emergency room and then got here, to Barrow. And when I first saw him on the morning of his admission, he was still very lethargic, complaining of severe headache and pain and not fully aware of his surroundings. The great thing is that by the next morning he was fully aware of what was going on and his level of consciousness had returned to what we call normal,\u201d according to Zabramski.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0The neurosurgeon didn\u2019t tie Michaels\u2019 hemorrhage to his recent emergency appendectomy or his diabetes.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cAt this point we were feeling pretty confident that Mr. Michaels does not have an aneurysm or any other problem with his blood vessels that could result in a recurrent hemorrhage,\u201d Zabramski said.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cAt this point he should be celebrating, but at this point the blood from that blood clot in his brain had begun to dissolve,\u201d Zabramski went on. \u201cHe was about seven days after the hemorrhage and as these blood products from the clot break down they are very irritating to the coverings of the brain and the spinal cord. This causes what we call chemical meningitis. This chemical meningitis can be severely painful and causes back pain and increased spasms. We could not treat him as we would many of the patients we treat because of his diabetes. For instance for many patients, we would put them on steroids, but he is a diabetic.<\/p>\r\n

So Michaels had to go on and suffer pain and discomfort.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0\u201cBut he is improving and he will continue to gradually improve,\u201d Zabramski said. \u201cIt takes about seven to 10 days more from now that this blood will resolve and he will really begin to feel like he is on the mend and he can resume all of his activities.\u201d<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Kudos to Michaels for his will to live, his luck and his spirit. Even if he wins \u201cCelebrity Apprentice,\u201d that victory will pale next to his survival in Phoenix.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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