Friday Morn

I was too worried to sleep last night so I asked the nurse to look up the CT results so I could get it straight. Syd was not concerned when she gave results to the Grandmas so I thought the information was just backwards. The results said pneumocephalis (air in the brain) in the right ventricle (where the drain is) and the other three ventricles were enlarged from previous scans. The impression on the report stated that the drain had good positioning but increasing hydrocephalis (fluid in the brain). The information was correct and yet it didn’t seem to be a concern. When I saw the right eye deviating to the right side I got nervous and had the nurse page the rehab resident (Cameron). He said they had noticed the right eye deviation for a couple days now but since he didn’t open his right eye very much before they felt it was not new. He also told me that they stopped the draining of fluid for hours before the surgery so the neurosurgeons have a bigger target when inserting the shunt. Syd had talked to Cameron about the findings but did not feel it was “true increased hydrocephalis” otherwise they would have intervened immediately. They both came by this morning to talk to me and reiterated what was said last night. Syd is going to talk to the neuroradiologists and then we are supposed to do another CT in a week to re-evaluate. Something else that was mentioned was the possibility of the ventricles not shrinking due to atrophy (wasting away of tissue). L The chest x-rays also show a small amount of thickening in his lungs probably from mucous. There is not much and Charlie doesn’t require any oxygen so they are not concerned