Tommy Scott was not worried when his pregnant wife called to tell him she thought she was on the road with a migraine. But when he came home from work, Tommy found amber, 38 weeks pregnant, laying in their bedroom do not react with one eye open and the other closed, Moaning and vomiting.
"Rush of course everything through your head," Tommy told today's Natalie Morales. "I phoned 911 right away and the ambulance was there within 10 minutes and we were at the hospital right away. But it was crazy. "
Doctors determined that the 29-year-old Amber had a ruptured blood vessel in his brain — a condition that occurs in approximately six out of every 100,000 pregnancies.
Surgeons elected to deliver her baby by C-section, and then to operate on Amber's brain.
Initially, everything seemed fine as Amber started to come out of the anesthesia. But then things took a frightening turn and she was once again responding. Realizing that the Ambers brain had started to swell rapidly, doctors removed part of her skull to protect her brain from being crushed against the bone.
A month later, Amber woke up, but was not well enough to talk himself. All the while watching her family visited regularly, showing Amber photos of baby, Adeline, she had yet to hold or even.
"We wanted to let her know the baby was okay," Tommy told today. "Since day one we have shows her images."She started to smile a little. She always smiles now. "
On Sunday, for the first time got Amber to keep her baby and begin to care for her.
"She kept the bottle and fed her," Tommy told today. "She needs a little assistance, but the most important part, she grabbed the bottle and went right into the mouth. She knows what is going on. For the first time, smiled Adeline also. "
Amber is still got a long way to go. Doctors predict she will be in intensive rehab for weeks working to regain speech and motor skills.
But they say are positive signs.
"She now communicates with us," said Dr. Andrea Toomer, a doctor at West Jefferson Medical Center, just outside New Orleans, today. "She can tell us what she needs and what she wants, what Bothers her. She is able to ask questions about what is going on. "
It is enough for a start to Amber's mom.
"The fact that she witness Adeline now that she recognizes her, that makes me feel better," said Laura Rabalais today.
For Tommy, who had been looking forward to the day when he and his wife would be parents, it has been "bittersweet."
"Of course you satisfied," he told Morales. "I am happy that I am a father now. But of course I will be with yellow all the time, too.
"Amber was so excited for the last nine months. Her whole life, everything revolved around making sure everything was prepared for Adeline. It is so sad. But we try to include Amber in everything we can. We always tell her daily activities. We do our best to keep her informed. "
Tommy takes hope from the speed of Ambers progress so far.
"I never would have thought that we would be this much sooner, compared to where we were we first started," he told today. "She has motivation to get better, and I believe she will definitively".
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