Fiesta Time

First and foremost my thanks to all the friends and family who took time out of their day yesterday to send positive thoughts our way. It made a huge difference. In this vast interconnected world it’s redeeming to know so many people care. Of course my wife tends to illicit that type behavior, she’s kind of cool that way. She came through the procedure with flying colors. The stent on one side of her brain is holding well and the smaller aneurism on the other side has not increased in size at all in the last five years. They do want to bring her back in two years (she was hoping for five) to continue to monitor that one. I was amazed at how much progress they’ve made in the technology in the short five years since her original operation.

Don't Know How She Managed to Look So Good After the Procedure

She was kept conscious for most of the procedure and they would ask questions of what she was experiencing while they were poking around inside her brain. They would heat up the probe and that turned her vision orange on one side and green on the other when they repeated it on that side. She had a very “handsome” Columbian doctor assisting this time which she insured I understood when she woke up. She also didn’t have to go through the massive pressure bandage on the incision site this time which made a huge difference. She always said the bandaging was the most painful part of the prior two procedures. She still has to be careful and is on strict bed rest for the next two days which means yours truly needs to step up as her nurse. This would cause lesser people to quail in fear but as I said yesterday, she’s pretty brave.

I got her home early yesterday afternoon and set her up in the family room for some of that required rest and a long delayed meal. We spent the afternoon watching a series of re-runs on Property Brothers which I discovered is an excellent sedative, especially when you don’t get a lot of sleep the night before. She slept most of the afternoon and then fielded a series of phone calls from around the world from concerned friends and family. It’s good to have this thing in the rear view mirror, at least for the next two years; excuse me now while I adjourn to continue my happy dance.