Homeschooling a Houseful

As if we didn't have enough to do

11:27 PM, Jan. 22, 2008 .. 1 comments .. Link

I haven't posted what has been going on, because, well, because we have had what seems like a lot going on. My dad passing away on Dec. 15. A wedding on January 19 and inbetween a health issue for my husband.
Here is what has been happening.

Dan started have some extreme head pain/pressure on Jan 1. He went to the doc at 9 am on the 2nd and we went straight from the doctors office to a CT scan. 2 hours later the doctor called to say that Dan had a cyst behind his eye.

He then had a MRI on the 4th and the doctor called in the evening to say that there is some bone missing and the cyst.

Then another CT Scan on the 10th and another evening call from the Doctor. He at that point said that a neurosurgeon had seen all the reports and wanted to see Dan in his office the next week. The doctor told Dan that nobody at this points thinks this is cancer. Whew. He also told Dan that even though he would be seeing the nuerosugeon next week, they wouldn't need to do anything until after the wedding...which btw was the most wonderful, fun wedding. Everything went very well, except for Dan not feeling well.

Ok, we saw the nuerosurgeon on the 16th and he explained it very well. You have an eye socket, it is bone. At the top of that socket Dan is missing bone. The hole is bigger than a dime, smaller than a nickle. Through that hole is....brain. Yep, brain, we could see it. The brain of course is in a sack with fluid around it, so that is bulging too. Actually the doc used the word pooching, we have brain pooching out through the hole. The doc is great. He spoke in words I could understand. That hole in Dan's head, probably been there his whole life. Why is this an issue now? We don't know. Doc says we can wait a couple weeks and see if symptoms subside.

The doc will cut a hole in the side of Dan's head, he will lift the brain and put something in to block the hole. Then the brain should hold that in place and scar tissue will develop and it should never be a problem again. Has the doctor ever seen this before? No, not with the hole in the eye socket. Usually it is over the nose. He says Dan will only need about 4 weeks off of work.

Dan was having so much pain during the wedding that we decided to go ahead and get surgery scheduled, so he is having surgery on the 29th, next Tuesday.