Details from last week

Thursday, May 29

Doreen traveled from Elgin, IL to N. Manchester, IN to attend the 60th reunion with her classmates from Manchester College. She also was planning to help her grandson, Parker, move his things home since he graduated from Manchester on May 18.

Around 7:00 pm she was at the soccer fields helping the team Parker was coaching celebrate the last practice. (In fine Doreen fashion, she had brought watermelon for all the kids.) Kurt Borgmann, whose son is on the team, went to the field to pick up his son at about 7:20 pm. When he arrived, he saw Doreen sitting on a cooler looking as though she was not feeling well. He inquired about how she was doing, and she indicated that she was experiencing nausea and dizziness. When she did not improve over the next several minutes, Kurt called a physician friend who lives near the soccer field. He came right over and suggested that they call an ambulance to take Doreen to the hospital in Fort Wayne immediately. He had identified several symptoms that may indicate a stroke and he wanted her to be under medical care as soon as possible. She was accompanied to the hospital by Kurt, who rode in the ambulance, and Parker, who followed in a car.

Once at the hospital, it was identified that she had experienced a severe brain hemorrhage at the back of the brain. Surgery was immediately necessary to attempt to prevent her death from this incident. She was out of surgery by 1:45 am EDT, Friday, and we were told that the surgery went well.