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1. Here I am!, 2. Stuck in the middle again!, 3. Joker's to the right, 4. Joker's to the left of me
Apologies for them not being in "order" - But it wasn't working right for me ... I wanted it to state: "Joker's to the left of me, Joker's to the right, Here I am! Stuck in the middle again!" Ah well!
Created with fd's Flickr Toys.
Went to the hairstylists and had my hair cut to 1 inch. The surgeon will cut on the top of the head, peel the scalp back, drill into the brain - tweak a vessel or 2 or 3 or 4 ... then glue the skull back, place the scalp back into place with staples or thread. Since wet shampooing will not be allowed for some time, I decided to make room for ease of the surgeons work area, my comfort on keeping a clean head, and for easier viewing by those that have to check to ensure there will be no infection on the surgical region. Now I'll be able to use a wash cloth to wipe my head and "feel clean" without a nasty mess with longer hair. A small price to pay.
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From my archives ~ the day before my brain surgery for an aneurysm. The surgery took place in San Francisco, not too far from a beautiful botanical garden.
I apologize for the delay .. but life happened.
post-op with a drain relieving excess fluid build up. I was convinced that the doctors were trying to make me look like Locutus. :)
Let's put up a big billboard on Park Street, one of the city's busiest thoroughfares, and sell "brain surgery without a scalpel" to every hypochondriac who drives by with a headache. Modern for-profit-medicine keeps marching along in Madison, Wisconsin... More at my blog, Letter from Here.
our basket o' fun, which began as a basket o' all the delicious foods when louisa when louisa brought it to us at the hospital the day of laurel's second surgery.
you can see just how large of an area of skull I lost. the swelling was due to medical packing under the skin absorbing CSF. Turns out that once I got a plate put in, the CSF was no longer being absorbed normally, resulting in a bad case of hydrocephalus. i have since received a VP cerebral shunt to correct the problem.
Necessary consequences of life saving surgery. Tomorrow I'm getting a haircut and I'm embarrassed about this large scar. It reaches halfway across my head and behind my ear.
Fynn & ich vor der letzten Nacht in der Neurochirurgischen Klinik des Universitätsklinikums Düsseldorf. Meine Gehirn-OP ist erfolgreich verlaufen und ich bin dem Team um "PD Dr. med. D. Hänggi" (inkl. Betreuung auf der Intensivstation) so dankbar, ... das ich jedes Wort als zuviel erachte und Euch einfach nur anstrahlen möchte ... *die Magie des Lebens geniessend*.
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Fynn & me before taking our last nap at the Neurochirurgic Clinic of the University Clinic in Düsseldorf. My brain-surgery was successful and I'm just thankful for such a terrific team around "PD Dr. med. D. Hänggi"(incl. intensive care) ... knowing that words just cannot express what I feel inside and therefore decided to sparkle at you while enjoying the magic of life.
Lani Leong '14, right, and Jody Buck '13 did brain surgery on sea slugs for their summer research fellowship at Rosalind Franklin University Medical School. Photo sent by Lani Leong.
Heres a little picture my wife took of me on her on of her off days. Trepanation (also known as trepanning, trephination, trephining or burr hole) is surgery in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the skull, thus exposing the dura mater in order to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases, though in the modern era it is used only to treat epidural and subdural hematomas and for surgical access for certain other neurosurgical procedures, such as intracranial pressure monitoring.
This is Brody. He was diagnosed with hydrocephalus at birth. He is a happy and healthy baby boy, who absolutely loves life!