Brain Surgery #4

Misty is out of surgery and sleeping in the Intensive Care Unit. The neuro-surgeon (Dr. Guy McKhann II – who I highly recommend if you need to have your brain worked on) spoke with me for a while and he is very pleased with the success of the surgery. As planned, they entered the tumor area from the opposite side and a bit lower. This let them work around the natural anatomical borders and safely resect much more of the tumor. An MRI tomorrow will tell exactly how much, but his opinion was that the procedure was very sucessful.

Misty is exhausted and in a bit of pain, but overall is doing well. As expected, her speech and motor functions will be impaired for the next few weeks – but she should recover from that just fine.

I’d say it was a good day.

© Misty LeBlanc,