SURGERY

The date has been set for June 11. I know this is what needs to happen, but i am also freaked out.

Her surgery will be done at Choc Hospitol. (which is an amazing hospital)

Her neurosurgeon is Dr Muhonen (Who is an amazing Neurosurgeon)

There will also be an ENT involved in the 1st surgery, who we saw last week, but i can't remember his name!

She will be having 2 surgeries. The first will take about 8 hours. They will go in thru her mouth and remove the odontoid bone that is putting pressure on her brain stem. They will pack the open space with fat from her thigh. Then they will close her up. She will have a breathing tube in and will remain mostly drugged till the second surgery. That will take place a day or so later. During this surgery they will do a decompression, he won't know how much he will have to decompress till he gets in their and she will have an MRI in between the surgeries to help decide things. Then they will go in and fuse her cervical spine, using some hardware.

We will be in the hospital for at best 10 days.

Her surgery has some risks of infection and spinal fluid leaks, that are not uncommon. These are the things we will be watching for during those 10 days. If any develop we will remain in the hospital longer.