Permission to Over React

Fearful that I will not be able to discern immediately between regular sickness and shunt failure (since the onset symptoms are the same), the doctors have given us permission to be over reacting parents.

Cayman declined quickly with this shunt failure. From the first time she threw up til she coded was less than six hours. That's a fast decline. Typically that level of seriousness of a shunt failure doesn't set in that quickly. But for Cayman, for whatever reason, it did.

I had to laugh at the irony of it. She was born untypical. And in her world of untypical she's even untypical there too. Silly girl. She likes to keep us guessing.

So now on this afternoon when she started not feeling well our flags went up especially since she had a great morning.

We paged the Nurse Practitioner from Neurosurgery. She came to Cayman's bedside to examine things and evaluate why she might be having a set back.

The meal plan orders have now been changed. Cayman is back on a liquid diet.

She ate a big breakfast of sausage and pancakes this morning. Probably not the best meal choice for the day after surgery since the bowels and digestion slow down.

So possibly her abdomen is appearing extra full simply due to the post-surgical reasons (gas, bloating, slow peristalsis, etc.) or it could be the horrible possibility that her scarred belly is not absorbing the fluid the shunt is draining into it.

So we're keeping a watchful eye on her, and of course praying, and now just waiting to see if the noticeable symptoms resolve themselves or get worse and point to another shunt failure.

As always, I'll keep you posted as we know more.

For now we just wait.

Touching noses with the bunny.