Surgery #2

I just realized that I had not put up a surgery #2 post, so here it is. I am going to explain what happened, and what lies ahead..

Our neurologist Dr. Wirrell, and the rest of the team were able to locate the exact spot of his seizure, the epicenter, if you will. Since that was able to be completed Dr. Wetjen (Neurosurgeon) was able to test this during the surgery, he was actually able to duplicate a seizure by messing with it. I say messing with it because I am not sure how he did it, if I had to assume it would be by sending an electrical signal to it. Dr. Wetjen told us that he was able to remove all of the problem, and almost all of the tremors (if you remember one tiny spot was in the crossover section and they did not want to risk permanete paralaysis. He told us it was a deep section, and as far as the technical side of the surgery goes, he was extremely pleased.

The part of the brain that was removed will fill with cerebal fluid, it’s really weird to think about that. I actually thought they would put like a foamy thing in there; good thing I am not a doctor. His scar was ugly, bumpy and very frankenstein like, they said that it should begin to look better and smooth out with time. They told us that it was because of the swelling, and not to worry. He gets his staples taken out in about 2 weeks or a month. The scar goes from his middle forehead, right at the hairline, to the back bump or shelf of the head and then onver to his ear and down his sideburn.

I am already telling him that his scar is awesome, that he now looks like a true ninja. I tell him that because for the last month we have been play fighting, and he always asks me to do my ninja moves. I told him that when we got home he could tell people he saved me from a band of ninja’s; he weakly smiled. I say that so if you read this you can tell him how awesome it is, if it is ever brought up. He is so sensitive to how he looks, he loves to dress nice and do his hair, so if he feels like his scar is something to be proud of he will be more confident of that around strangers.

As it stands there have been no more seizure, 20 hours since his last one.He is still doped up, has eyes that are swollen shut, almost no movement on his right side, very slurred speech and a very swollen head. Now imagine all of that and then picture this he has tried sitting up a few times on his own, but this morning before falling asleep, he tried to STAND! He was so ticked off about everything, so upset he couldn’t see and be his normal self that he said “Daddy I wanna go home’, then started to prop himself up. I thought that he wanted to sit, so I sat him up, he pushed me away, He then proceeded to try and stand up, he was growling in frustration so I held him up, and let him stand. He stood there for about a minute, then we sat him down; he fell asleep about 20 seconds after that.

We are doing a lot better today, I feel a renewed strength, and I can see that in Sarah as well. They are going to be monitoring X very closely for today and tomorrow, he has some blood inbetween his skull and brain, and he has not eaten since Tuesday. The plan for today is eat, rest, work on moving limbs, and sleep.

I don’t have anymore pictures, they would all be the same, Xander sleeping, when I get them I will post. Tomorrow I’ll let you know what they say about his subdural hematoma and his therapy.