4th time is the charm.

Tyler is back in the ICN. At the moment he's in the middle of a rats nest of wires and cables. They like lots of access in the Operating room. I'm sure it's all neat and orderly when they are operating, but when they go to transport him back it all gets shoveled into the crib. After an hour or so the ICN team has him all sorted out. If things go well they will start removing tubes over the next few days.

He is starting to wake up on his own and is thinking about fighting all the wires and tubes. His eyes are open and he's looking around. He looks like he may have some pain especially when he moves, but they just gave him some morphine to help him out. As long as Mom or Dad has a hand on him he stays calm. Over all he looks like "What the hell happened!"

Doctors all say he did great! He's on a Ventilator at the moment until the Anastasia wears off. They are going to hit him with some pain killers so he stays still while the fluid in his head settles back into place. One of the big post-op dangers is the fluid shifting too quickly and causing a bleed. Chances are he also has a pretty killer headache. The Surgeon reports that some of the old clots even came out while they were flushing the ventricles (a bonus).

The surgeon came up to speak with us after surgery. Everything went well. She did the procedure by hand with the help of the computer guidance for directions. So now we just wait to see if the cyst can drain out slowly enough not to cause problems yet quickly enough before the hole heals over. We expect him to be close to line free in the next 24 hours and him to recover quickly overall.

(Can you tell who wrote which paragraph?)