Sucessful Surgery

Haddie ended up needing surgery today at 9:30am. The fluid on Haddie's brain is supposed to be connected by 4 ventricles. That makes it so the shunt can effectively drain any fluid from all of them. However a wall formed between the ventricles making it so the shunt wasn't draining all the areas it needed to. So they went in through her current shunt site and poked a hole in the cystic wall that had formed. The tube was inserted in that area to help drain it.

This whole procedure went very well. Haddie is crying and noisy...and that's a good thing. We had noticed that she wasn't herself the day we took her home. She wouldn't cry when you changed her or put her in the car seat...which she normally would do. She also is following you better with her eyes now.

So with the UTI gone, which was affecting her belly, and the brain problem fixed...it would seem that Haddie should be on the road to recovery now. They will do a CT scan of her brain later to make sure things are better. Her blood count is a little low so they will give her a blood transfusion too.

Thanks for your prayers. Praise be to the God who hears us and continues to let us love and care for our beautiful little fighter.