Dallas Update

Blogger wouldn't work for me last night, so I wasn't able to update..but here I am today. Our trip to Dallas went good. Kanyon did fine in the car..he's just going to have to grow into it. He had his CT scan and then we met with his neurosurgeon. He said that his ventricles were smaller, but still large. So..we are having the permanent shunt put in next week. He said he just feels like he'd rather go ahead and fix it and be done with it than sit around and wait to see if it will go away. We really feel OK about this. At this point, we are ready to do whatever we need to do to get things back the way they are supposed to be. We will go to Dallas for pre-op Tuesday and the surgery will be Wednesday then he should go home maybe Thursday or Friday. I don't know much about the ins and outs of the shunt or the procedure, but we'll learn all of that Tuesday. I asked about damage and the Dr. said they can't really tell how much. He said that the right side does have some because that is the side that the ventricle is so much larger, but he said you never know what that means. That is probably as good of an answer as we're going to get. It is just such a broad range with so many different possibilities that there is no way to know. All we know is that he is at high risk for things and we will start now working on those. The good thing is working on those things does make a difference, so we can start helping before we even know what is going to happen. And the bottom line is, nothing they tell us will change a single thing. So..that is what's next for us. Like I said, we feel good about this and think this is the right move. I think it will ease some of our worries. So, back to the hospital we go, but this time we will be in pediatrics!! WOW! Not Neonatal! Thanks for your prayers yesterday.