My Journey Archives - Page 5 of 6

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...

Surgeries • My Journey

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. One thing with...

My Journey • Surgeries • 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,...

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...

My Journey • Surgeries • 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....

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...

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...

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...

My Journey

01/28/2017

Woo whoo… got to go home

I was released from the hospital on January 28th. For the next couple of days, I chilled on the couch, slept a lot – sleeping is the best...

My Journey • Rehab

01/24/2017

Learning to do things all over

My initial physical therapy session goal was 5 steps at a time walking from my bed, to a wheel chair or wheel chair to the toilet. I...

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My Journey

Back to the Hospital but with some different issues

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

Surgery number #3

Cleared for Surgery #3

Pressure relief – Surgery #2

Fighting the infection in my brain

Not just a ventricle issue… battling three issues now…

Back to Choc for the second time

Woo whoo… got to go home

Learning to do things all over