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I just assumed she hit her head when she fell. So this type of clotting wouldn't be caused by something like that?They will go live with their dad in europe, away from zach (!!!!), if heather dies or becomes a potato.
I have a hunch that heather got exposed to COVID and has developed the blood clotting disorders associated with that condition. Abnormal clotting is one of the hardest things to manage about this disease, and you can have the blood clotting problems crop up without fever or lung problems or other typical symptoms. It is very rare for someone heather's age to suffer this kind of medical event, even with obesity (possibly hypertension?) thrown into the mix, women tend to be post menopausal before the risk becomes serious. Florida is having a pretty big boom in covid cases right now too, if I recall correctly. I could be wrong and she is just very unlucky, the stress she deals with certainly doesn't help.
Zach isn't getting much information because care teams are scrambling to decide what to do, informing him is not high on the priority list. If she isn't dead at the end of this, she is going to have a long road ahead. Aphasia= language associated areas of the brain were compromised, she will need some kind of rehabilitation after this. Being a younger patient makes her neurological prognosis better than an older person who suffered similar brain damage, but it still isn't good. Depending on how badly her brain bleed and clots up she could end up in a vegetative state.
Zach should have had a job like yesterday, for health insurance if nothing else. I also don't know how he would deal with her death psychologically, his friends are all on the internet, he hates his family of origin, and I don't think heather's family likes him very much. Penny ran away. I am going to guess he resorts to drug use? Not really sure. Doesn't seem good though. He has poor coping skills.
If she's unable to work, she should be able to get disability and medicaid coverage for her health care -- if she survives this. If she doesn't, Zach is going to be homeless pretty soon.