Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Woohoo Surgery!

Here we are once again at the Hospital in Salt Lake.
This past week was terrible.
I couldn't sleep one night.
I am so jealous of those lips
I kept waking up another.
I went to bed late.
I woke up way to early.
I am just tired.
One thing I can say is that I am glad we are back and that Liam finally went through surgery.
We had an appointment with Oncology last Thursday.
They had an MRI done. He was sedated. Poor child. Pricked a lot once again.
The MRI revealed what, as a mother, I had anticipated.
Liams ventricles are much larger than they were in the past.
They let his Neurosurgeon know.
Yesterday we had the appointment with Neurosurgery.
We talked about the procedures that could take place.
Either an ETV with a CPC or a shunt.
We are blessed to live near 1 out 8 surgeons in the world that could perform the ETV/CPC procedure.
It is risky because it will be done right by the brains main artery and could cause death.
After talking it over Casey and I decided to go through the risky surgery.
Why be afraid?



This morning Liam was prepped for surgery at 7:00 am. I was up since 3.
That's right... 3
After about 3 hours of surgery Liam was out of surgery and in Recovery.
What a strong little guy.
I feared the first hour.
Why?
The Doctor said if for any reason he thought that the procedure would not work out he would immediately call us and tell us Liam needed a shunt.
At about an hour and a half his nurse called. I was nervous but it was good news.
Surgery was going well.
The Surgeon came to talk to us about the outcome and the future.
There is still a 30% chance Liam would have to come back in the future and there was nothing that could be done but put a shunt in.
We pray that this doesn't happen.

We have been blessed with such a great hospital.
Liam is now recovering and Eliana has been able to be here.
There is even a play room for kids of all ages.
As you can see in the pics she is having a blast.
She didn't even want to leave.
We spend A LOT of hours there.
The good thing is she will sleep great tonight.
I didn't even know she knew how to do half of those things.
May be from watching mommy and daddy she has learned
I mean I do not iron very often but she has seen because as soon as she picked that iron up she knew what to do with it. She also did the dishes.
She pushed a doll on the stroller and ran yelling "GO GO GOOOO!!"
She sat her on a high chair and fed her.
She ate pizza.
She also attended a sick baby.
Maybe she will be a Doctor. I had a great time with her playing pretend.


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