Thursday, February 5, 2009

Surgery

Cindy went into surgery at 1pm and the Dr. came and talked w/ her mother at 2:30pm. She should be getting back up to her room any minute now. The surgery went fine. The Dr. stated that the shunt was not working properly and now it should be working again. He never told Kathy what the issue with the shunt was. The Dr. feels that Cindy was also possibly dealing w/ "spinal tap headaches" also. She has had 3 spinal taps over the past month and he said that fluid could be leaking from the lower spine where the spinal taps where done. What they are thinking about doing is a "blood patch". That will seal up the area in the lower spine where the spinal taps were taken. They might be doing that tomorrow. They say that is a very quick and easy procedure to do. I am sure we will get more information tomorrow when the Dr. talks w/ Cindy.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cindy and Family,
We sure hope that these trips to and from Milwaukee will be done soon! Our family will keep you guys in our prayers, and for Cindy, we pray for a rapid recovery and no headaches or migraines and quality time with family to come.
God Bless you all.

Wayne H.

Anonymous said...

Cindy,
Hope you feel better and better each day! It sounds like they found the problems, so that is a relief! Take care and hope you can come home soon! We are praying daily for your COMPLETE recovery!
God Bless~
Joyce

Anonymous said...

Thank you for the update. We will continue to be thinking of you all. We pray your life may be blessed by what the Doctors have found. May the Lord bring you back together as a family soon! With compassion, Jason & Deb Oolman

Anonymous said...

We hope and pray all things go well. Hope you will soon be home without headaches.
The Dykstra