Kathy will have shunt revision surgery this Thursday at Sharp Memorial Hospital. Her surgery is scheduled at 7:20 AM. I expect the surgery to take just a few hours. She should go right into post surgery ICU for the afternoon. I am told she will be in the hospital for only a few days and get released for the weekend.
The surgery is very straight forward. The plan to insert a new adjustable shunt valve in place of the fixed valve which is over-draining. After the valve placed they will hook up both the siphon end and the displacement end tubes without changing. This is the way its supposed to happen. Kathy should then have the comfort of having a valve that a Doctor can fine tune to assist Kathy's comfort levels. Let's keep our fingers crossed!
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