Thursday, March 5

It's about 1:10 am and I just got home from the OSU Medical Center. As I said earlier, there were some subtle changes that have been occurring since the Friday surgery. To ease my mind, I decided to take Mr. Bichler to the E.R. just to have the neurosurgery team check him out. That was around noon. A C.T. scan (at 6 pm) showed a hemotoma (blood from bruising) that may or may not be causing some of the problems Mr. B has been experiencing. The neurosurgeon said they would be admitting Mr. B for observation but around 8 pm an anesthesiologist came to get information for his surgery. Guess they forgot to tell us about that little detail! Any way, today they will be doing another surgery to suction the blood off the brain. They did an MRI around 11 pm but I won't know the results from that until I go back in the morning. I just needed to get home and get some rest. The surgery is considered an add on so it will probably be later in the day when ever the surgeon can fit it in. Dr. McGregor will be doing the surgery. He has done the previous 2 surgeries and he is absolutely wonderful. I will have Trish update the blog as we get more information.