Surgery Updates
The Camino ICP monitor was surgically placed yesterday morning and showed normal levels for 24 hours. They did surgery this morning. They were able to harvest enough bone to do bone grafts, but they also covered with titanium plates. No blood transfusion was needed. In post-op, they could not give him morphine, because his oxygen levels were a bit low. Once those were up, they moved him to PICU. Here, he promptly threw up the sip of water that he had after surgery. Later, when a headache started, they tried Tylenol, but that did not work. Morphine worked, but he puked everywhere again. This evening, he had another headache, but his respiration is not consistent enough to get a nausea med and morphine again. He has been sleeping, though. I think that we will head home on Friday some time. He has one little spot on the right side above his ear that keeps bleeding, but the neurosurgeon thinks it looks fine.
Overall, he is doing good. These little bumps in the road are to be expected. Now, if I can just get over this cold that I came down with last night...
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Jessica 
