Back To Normal Soon?
Bill remarked that my doctor ruined my hairdo. John made the obvious comparison to a football.
So I went in to Swedish and they drilled a couple holes in my head to drain the excess fluid that was building up inside my skull and pushing my brain off to the side, where it was not intended to be. Now I’m at home, taking drugs that drain all my energy and leave me laid out on the couch most of each day.
But my latest CT scan looks much better and if the next one, in about 10 days, continues to look better I should be back on the path to normalcy soon. Meanwhile I’m not supposed to drive for three weeks or consume alcohol or exert myself more than just a little. This puts a big load on Judy but as she said, if it had been her I would do it. This is what being married is all about sometimes. I just can’t imagine someone in this condition having no one to care for them.
I had wondered about the surgery. Would they cut two little V-shaped patches and pull the skin back to drill? Apparently not. It makes sense. They seem to have made one long slit and pulled the skin back enough at each end to drill. Then when it was time to seal me up they just used staples. The skin around your skull is custom fitted and snug so imagine trying to get that all back smoothly using needle and thread. Staples make more sense, plus it’s a whole lot easier to push the skin back together with your fingers and then, ka-chunk. And apparently there are not a lot of nerve endings up there because they did it without any anesthesia and it really didn’t hurt much. Who knew?
Biker Quote for Today
Loud pipes are loud pipes.
Tags: brain surgery, drunk driver crash
