Question About Stroke?

My fiance's father had a stroke Thursday night (about 36 hours ago) and he's still in ICU. His entire left side went numb and he was in the hospital one minute later. His top number for blood pressure was 293...it's stabilized now in the 180's. I know he has fluid in his brain and they've been doing tests every couple hours (cat scans, CT's, etc) to see if he needs surgery. I know he hasn't eaten since Thursday and he's complaining he's hungry.

I don't know much at all about strokes or high blood pressure. Could someone tell me what to expect from this scenario? He's been awake and alert (even though he's doped up on medicine), but he's still in ICU....

I want to think everything will be ok, because my thinking is that if something worse would have happened, it would have happened already, but like I said, I have no experience with strokes and he's still in the ICU....

Can anyone tell me what to expect from here? Can he get worse in the hospital? What can happen?

some backgroung: he's a smoker, not overweight, but has lots of stress; used to be an alcoholic, but been sober in AA for 5 years; around 55 years old

Just any words would help good or bad....I feel kinda naive in thinking he'll be fine because it happened almost 2 days ago and don't know if it can get worse....It also just worries me in the ICU....can it still get worse?

Well with experience with my grandmother and well my mother when she was 32 having one similar to that with the left side numb and all well Prayer the load they are alive today and health...

My mom had high blood pressure and well, major stress with the job she was working as a nurse that involved with her being worn out and over working her self.

As my gram it is a different story she spent 6 months in the hospital and they would always take her in to the xray to get something and she would have mini ones on top of that it worriedd us a bit. my gram is a very small person also to that

I can tell you not to worrie or well everything is going to turn out and be fine but it is not that easy it is something that you have to look to god for answerer's and pray. But there is a possibility that he may worsen or well he may get better ..

Ask god for help pray ... An well i will be praying for you also so that he gets better an gets to live a happy life getting to know you ...

It would be easy to say "don't worry." However with the proper rehabilitation, he may come back to almost where he was before. This is going to take time and patience, and love on the part of all the people concerned. The immediate worry is the fluid buildup on the brain, and how it is handled. After that they will start testing to see the extent of his impairment, and then to see what can be done.

no absolute answer here....wait and see is not the answer you want, but that is why he is being so closely monitored in the ICU...so if something worse begins to happen, and yes it may, the ICU staff can quickly assess what is going on and take action...it is a good sign that he has been stabilized at this point...