Had to sleep.. Blogging had to wait.

Well its been over 24 hours since the surgery. Jenny is alert, chatting, eating like a horse, complaining about pain, all good things. She did manage to get a few hours of sleep last night which helped. Fortunately she has not has any more seizures. She had two right after she came out of surgery and one around 630pm on thursday.

The only issue that Jenny is having is her left arm has a tremor and it is much weaker. Remember the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body so that would explain the issues. She has already spoken with a neurologist and they are confident as the brain heals so will the weakness. Her left leg seems to be doing okay. She is still in the neuro ICU at this point in time. I would bet she gets moved later today to the general neuro beds. They have doubled her dosage of keppra (anti-seizure medicine) to 1000mg 2x per day.

I also attahched a picture from today. She has a sweet gauze helmet on! Don't worry about the spots on the front. Those are just sharpie markers that circled some bleeding right after surgery. They do that to monitor if there is any excessive drainage. But fret not, all is well....


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Forgot to mention

The rn team has been awesome. Especially our night shift rn- phillip morris. Yes you heard me right, phillip morris. I was going to crack a joke or say something like hey phil got a light but I'm sure he has already heard them all. Kinda like michael bolton iin office space or george michael in arrested development... Except this isn't hollywood!

But seriously these guys (all of them have been male rn's) have been super.

Later... Rj reynolds
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Goodnight

Well still with jenny, she had another seizure around 630 and it really scared both of us but the nurses assured me she was in good hands and the neuro resident said everything is okay.

Jenny's parents and my dad went back to our house to hopefully get some rest. I'm bedside all night just holding jennys hand. I hoping she will get a little bit of rest knowing I'm here just watching over her. Till tomorrow....
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Tired..

I'm with jenny in her room she is obviously very groggy but she spoke with all us and grumbled at us a few times about invading her space. She had two seizures while in recovery which can happen after surgery. But she is resting at the moment....

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Just give us 15 minutes...

That was 1hr and 15 minutes ago... Jenny is finally in the neuro icu and they keep telling me "give us 15 minutes and then you come back"..... I briefly saw her getting wheeled into thw unit, she was all bandanged up and appeared to be sleeping. I just want to see my wife!!!!!!!! For the love of god.....

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It's benign!

Just spoke with the doc. Everything went perfectly, no blood loss, the tumor was completely removed, and more importantly the pathology report came back and the tumor was completely benign. This is great news. The doctor said she is already alert and talking. It will probably be a couple of hours before we get to see her. More to come.....

Kevin
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2nd update

Good news, the nurse indicated that Dr. Shapiro is already closing. The nurse said he is already stitching the dura over the brain to close up the wound.. The nurse said, that he said everything was going great. The nurse expected that we would probably be speaking with doctor in the next hour or so. He usually goes up to the recovery to observe as his patients as they are coming out their little naps and then he comes down to speak with the family.

Kevin
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