Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Den Dempsey in Hospital

Kathy and I visited Den at Swedish Hospital Neurological ICU room 208 at the Cherry Hill Campus on Tuesday, May 21. 

On May 7 he experienced what he believed from his firefighter training was an aneurism.  He was admitted to a hospital near his home then transferred to Swedish Hospital.  Surgery to contain the aneurism was done by placing a reinforcing coil in the weakened blood vessel in his brain.   
Some bleeding has continued and Den will have surgery Thursday, May 23, to remove a cluster of blood vessels which are complicating his recovery.  This condition is congenital and has chosen now to become a problem. 

Den is puzzled that his years of stressful working conditions as a firefighter did not reveal his condition sooner.

He expects to be released to go home early next week. 

Den’s address is:
15916 Westwick Road
Snohomish, WA 98290

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