The Bleed

While my Dad was still in the post op recovery room waiting for his room in ICU things took a turn for the worse. His blood pressure spiked and he was no longer responding. At this point they took him to CT to find he had a bleed in the area that was weakened by the stroke. They have no idea why the bleed happened but it did and it was sizeable and it was causing swelling. We were told that they would need to remove some of his skull to give the brain room to "swell". We were also told "if he bleeds when we do this, he dies". This was due to the fact that he had been on heparin for 3 days and plavix for 1.