Doing a Happy Dance!

Today was a good day! Tyler had another MRI (believe this is his 8th over the last 3 months) and a visit with his surgeon today.
Drum roll please. His scan looks much better than the last one. Not quite to his baseline but moving nicely in the right direction. We want things to move slow since we are talking about brain matter being shifted around due to fluid dynamics. His ventricle size has come back up, about half way between his baseline and slits. The fluid around the outside of the right side of the brain is almost completely back to normal, the air pocket is gone, and the fluid on the outside of the left side of the brain is also much smaller. The surgeon drained the fluid off the outside on the right side when she changed the valve in the last surgery. More over the surgeon was very pleased to hear GI was very happy that he gained 1/2 a pound since right after the first revision surgery. Another words, despite not feeling well and having 2 more revisions, Tyler gained some weight on the days he did feel well. I was also able to tell the surgeon that we haven't had any "bad day" over the last two weeks. He's eating very well for me, and not grumpy, the wobbles are gone, he's able to climb better than before this all started. So for now she doesn't need to see us for 3 months unless Tyler starts to look funny again. Wahoo!

On a sad note, we had to say good-bye to one of his neurosurgeons. We haven't seen her a while other than in passing, but still sad to see her leave Dartmouth. We wish her all the luck in her new adventures. Thank you!