Fits Like a Glove!

Kathy had her surgery today and it went about as well as could be expected. She started at 5:30 A.M. with her pre-surgery preparations and went into surgery around 7:00 A.M. We waited until 9:30 A.M. when Dr. Kureshi came downstairs and gave us his post surgery update.

Dr. Kureshi commented everything went extremely well. He had to make an extra long incision to get everything fitted correctly but that was the only unpredictable event. He installed an adjustable shunt for the fine tuning features, which is set at a lesser flow to slow down the movement of excess CSF. (Over draining was the problem with Kathy's older shunt) Also, he installed a gravity cut off feed which allows Kathy to move her head up and down without as much head pain. Everything this afternoon went as planned with Kathy being probably released tomorrow.

Kathy's ROOM number is #803-1 on the 8th floor of Sharp Mercy Hospital. You can call the front desk at (858) 939-3960 and ask for her room. She has no direct dial number.

Again thanks for the prayers and the wonderful visits.