Not Much of an Update

There is not much to update from today. A few praises though:

• Cayman's chest x-ray showed her lungs looking healthy. There was some fear and risk because of how long Cayman was in surgery with the doctors operating near the lungs.
  
• Cayman has drained 300 ml of CSF off her brain since surgery last night. I believe that is over 10 oz. That is a lot of fluid!! She is acting much more like herself not having all that pressure in her head.

We stayed at the hospital last night. It was midnight when Cayman was finally out of surgery. She is in the PICU and arrived to her room a little before 1:00 a.m. It was a very late night and it was too complicated to make arrangements to sleep elsewhere. Besides, it was impossible to leave her knowing everything is not fixed and all better for her.

The doctors are planning to take Cayman back to surgery tomorrow, possibly in the morning. They don't have it fully figured out yet where they are going to put the end of the shunt. Right now the top choice sounds like relocating the entire shunt to the opposite side of her head and having it run into the heart from there.

Thank you so much for the many comments. If all of you only could realize how much joy we get from hearing from so many!! The hospital is such a sad place, a stressful place, a lonely place. Your comments help us cope. Thank you! Keep 'em coming :o).