Paul's Update: May 26th at 3:30pm
When Karen first had her injury - today marks two months since it happened, we were told it would take a very long time for her to recover. We were also told that progress would be slow and there would likely be setbacks along the way. Well, we experienced one of those setbacks this week. Unfortunately, due to a sudden lack of continuing progress in Karen's rahabilitation, the Doctors suspected and confirmed with a new CT scan that Karen had developed Hydrocephalus (water on the brain). This is due primarily to the bleeding that occured two months ago causing an obstruction in the body's natural process of flushing out of the fluid in one's brain. So, yesterday the neurosurgeon placed a Ventriculo-Peritoneal Shunt in Karen to reduce the pressure caused by the excess fluid. For those of you who are interested in these things, you can get more information by going to http://www.preemies.org/buckwal/shunt.htm. The surgeon told me yesterday after the surgery that all went well, and she should be able to resume her rehabilitation sometime after the holiday weekend. Hopefully, this will correct Karen's recent lag in the rehabilitation progress, and she can quickly get back on the road to recovery and resume the amazing progress she has previously shown. I saw Karen this morning and fed her lunch. She seems to have come through the surgery OK. She just has one hell of a headache and a really interesting haircut. I can say she has been the typical, tough Karen through this whole thing. I suspect she will come out of it just fine. I will keep you all posted, ofcourse.
posted by Karen's Blog @ Friday, May 26, 2006
2 Comments:
Paul,
Thank you for the update. Sorry to hear of the setback, but relieved that Karen came through surgery alright. I continue to think of and pray for all of you daily.
Keep up the good work, Karen. You are one tough lady!
Amanda
I'm sorry to hear of this setback, but hopefully once she recovers from the surgery, she'll start making that great progress again. We're still thinking about you and praying for you, Karen! Even people at church whom you've never met ask me about you every Sunday.
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