Today's news: Lucy's drain will be clamped tomorrow, and she will go home Saturday if all goes well. If she leaks at any time before or after she goes home, the plan is for temporary internal shunt placement, which would route her CSF to her stomach for a couple of months, buying even more time for her brain to close on its own. After that, persistent leaking would necessitate another open craniotomy as the sole remaining solution.
We hate the thieving disease that presses us behind and before, but this myopia does produce a full awareness in us of the present moment. As Jim Elliot said, we are "all here"-- a rare gift.
So I was at work Monday and walked by "Lucy's Room" which was unoccupied since she left. I peaked in only to see the mural had survived cleaning and was still pleasantly occupying the wall :) It made me smile. I hope "home" will keep Lucy close for awhile but she is definitely missed by her nurses!
ReplyDelete:) Katy Morris