Ok, So Shelly is out of surgery and in ICU until tomorrow. Lots has happened today. This morning the neurologist did a test to find the good areas around the bad area of the brain… wanting to make sure they don’t disturb the good areas when they to the resection (removal of the area of brain that is causing the seizures.) The test should take about 2 hours. So they get started and the nurse decides that she needs to start the plasma that was ordered for an hour earlier right when the doc is trying to set up for the test.. hmmm. So the doc stops the test and waits until she is done.
Then the blood pressure machine starts beeping because she didn’t turn it off. Then the nurse call button starts calling the nurse (but no one is pushing the button). Hmmmm. Then the remote control (connected to the call button) starts changing the channel all by itself. Then the plasma finishes and the machine starts beeping… then Shelly has to go to the bathroom and we finally take a break…. start back up with test and the doc gets an emergency page. Then a student calls him and he goes out to meet her so she can find him so she can observe. 3 hours later we finally finish the testing! The enemy was really in the way.
The test results are in and the brain mapping is done and they come to talk to me. The neurologist that was doing the language analysis said that her language area had remapped to another area of the brain (same as the physical when we did the MEG last spring). The seizure data showed that there is a very precise area in the brain that is causing the seizures. They told me this info at 1:30 today and said they would be taking her to surgery as soon as the OR opened up (at 3:30). I asked one of the neurologists if he were to put a percentage on a cure from this surgery for Shelly what would it be… he told me better than 75%! Yahweh is Great!
Shelly’s surgery went well. She has a really bad headache. Satch is staying with her tonight in ICU. Tomorrow they want her up and moving early, 6 AM in the chair. Her eyes will be swollen for a while and there is a lot of bruising from surgery, but she has come through with flying colors. They did an EEG after her surgery and she had no more seizure spikes!
We should be going home on Wednesday and will have a couple weeks before the staples come out and 6 weeks before she can go back to full normal activity.
We will be keeping a low profile for the next couple weeks while she recuperates. Keep us in prayer (so we don’t go stir crazy!) and in a few weeks we would love to have company!
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