Quick Update

Lisa is having a rough time as of late.

I talked to the Dr who did her shunt. Lisa has enlarged ventrical valves that are half the size she had prior to her shunt when we almost lost her. They are enlarged again, due to a urinary tract infection. Don't ask me or anyone else how this happened...it is common and NO ONE knows how 2 different places in the body can have such an affect on the shunt...if you know, we were told, you will get the Pulitzer prize. Crazy!

Dr Kattner is concerned and told me he has been thinking about her case for a few days now. He has deliberated many things he can do and it came to just taking the current shunt out and replacing it entirely. It is obviously malfunctioned and he told me they sometime last 20 years without a problem. Unfortuneately, Lisa's didn't. He will retire in just 3 months. We are thankful that this did not happen when he was no longer practicing. He has her fresh in his mind from 3 short months ago and he remembered her vividly. He knows that this is the best way to go for her. He could have treated her with antibiotics with a chance of it not working...So this is where we are at.

Lisa, on the other hand, heard that and told him she does not want the surgery...she wants out of the hospital and she does not want to hurt anymore. Sad...so very sad for us to see her this way. We try to explain to her in small and understandable words so she understands. She has it in her mind that she will never get better:( We reassure her that the Drs care about her and that they want her to not feel so bad. Some of it soaks in, but then she starts all over again. I, in all my life, have never seen her so distraught. Not even when Mom died.

I don't know when this all will take place. The dr said that he is waiting for the 48 hour cultures to come back, sometime tomorrow morning. He said that she is shunt dependent and he wants it to be right. He was informative and answered all my questions. He told me the surgery will be tomorrow afternoon and that it is an hour procedure and recovery is 1-2 days. I don't know much else.

Lisa is sooooo scared. She doesn't want to do anything without one her sisters there. I know that she prays...just like a child...I know God is listening to her!

Please pray for her as well, for the surgeons expert hands and for full and total recovery. She didn't sign up for this...we didn't either! May God's will be done!

Lisa surrounded by most of the Taminger cousins In July