Surgeries

Surgeries • My Journey • Complications

03/02/2017

Back to the Hospital but with some different issues

In addition to not feeling good for a few days, on March 2, I had some pain on my right side, and when I went pee, there was some blood in...

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My Journey • Surgeries

02/20/2017

Normal for the most part… for a few weeks at least…

For the next few weeks, I started MY normal routine.  Each day I got IV antibiotics every 8 hours – 6am, 2pm and 10pm.  But, one thing...

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Surgeries • My Journey • Complications

02/14/2017

Surgery number #3

Your body produces CSF continuously to protect your brain.  As you produce more, your ICP goes up. As your brain excretes/eliminates it,...

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Surgeries • My Journey

02/14/2017

Cleared for Surgery #3

In order to be cleared for surgery to fix my ICP issue, I had to be infection free.  To be cleared, Infectious Disease had to pull 3 CSF...

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Surgeries • My Journey • Complications

02/03/2017

Pressure relief – Surgery #2

The only way to relieve the pressure and test to see what was going on was to put in an External Ventricular Drain (EVD) in my skull....

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Surgeries • My Journey • Complications

02/02/2017

Fighting the infection in my brain

Enter a new department to help with my case – Infectious Disease (ID).  Dr. Arrieta is the president of the medical staff and division...

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Surgeries • My Journey • Complications

02/02/2017

Not just a ventricle issue… battling three issues now…

Upon sampling the CSF it was discovered I acquired bacterial meningitis during the initial surgery.  What that meant, is I had an...

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Surgeries • My Journey • Complications

02/01/2017

Back to Choc for the second time

I was readmitted to the hospital February 2.  Upon admission to the hospital I had a MRI, and it showed my ventricles in my brain were...

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Surgeries • My Journey

01/22/2017

Cracken open the skull – Surgery #1

I had brain surgery to remove the tumor on January 23, 2017.  The surgery took about 2 hours and the best news we received, was the tumor...

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