Tyler is out of surgery and recovering nicely in his PICU room. I can't help but think we've been in this room before, oh wait we have.. Everything went fine, we got to see a tired but happy Neurosurgeon coming to talk to us in the waiting room again. At the moment he is very groggy, he should be up and asking for food any time now, followed by a long night of sleep. Although with the anesthesia he could sleep through most of the night.
The surgeon replaced his valve and we are back to a programable. While it is more likely to clog, we can now make changes to the flow-rate without surgery. Life just got a bit more tricky at home, we need to move any magnet related toys out of Tyler's reach. Things are also more complex if we have to take him to the ED, we will have to make sure they can re-program him before he gets an MRI. The hope is that with the ability to fine-tune the shunt we can re-inflate the ventricles and get back on track soon.
Neurosurgery has ordered for another quick-brain MRI tomorrow hopefully we will like what we see.
(Post-Op sound asleep)
1 comment:
that first picture, makes T look like he is up to no-good...ready to cause some trouble and giggle his way out of it.
hope you see you 3 soon!
lys-
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