Surgeries

03/20/2017

Surgery #7 – Shunt

The surgery to insert the Shunt was performed on March 20. The good thing about the Shunt surgery, is that I only needed to stay a day or...

Surgeries • My Journey

03/16/2017

Surgery #6 – EVD Redo

When you have an EVD or any type of device to help your body function for a while, you sometimes need to have it changed so you don’t...

My Journey • Surgeries

03/04/2017

Another Brain Surgery – #5

March 4th was a bad day where I was really sick and I got to a point that my ICPs were so high, that I began to reach a critical level from...

Surgeries • My Journey • Complications

03/03/2017

Kidney Issue – Surgery #4

On March 3, I had a 2 hour kidney surgery at Choc – by Dr Wehbi, one of the best pediatric urologist in the world – to remove...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

ZACH ROUND

ZACH ROUND

Surgery #7 – Shunt

Surgery #6 – EVD Redo

Another Brain Surgery – #5

Kidney Issue – Surgery #4

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

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