Massimo is doing very well today. After a shunt insertion patients are raised slowly to ensure that they aren’t adversely affected by the change in the pressure in the head. Massimo was raised to about 30º with no adverse effects today so we expect that he will be raised even further tomorrow. The doctors were very pleased with him at rounds this morning and are happy for him to be transferred back to SGH from today. SGH didn’t have a bed today, so we will have to see what happens tomorrow.
We have a date for the brochoscopy/MLB/lasering of the granuloma and that will be next Wednesday 18th. We also have a date for his gastrostomy and that is 26th June. We are investigating the possibility of combining the two and doing everything on Wednesday as this would reduce the number of general anaesthetics he would have to go through, however the shunt has also incurred surgery on his stomach, so we don’t know if it would be too early for more surgery in roughly the same spot.
Massimo and I had a lovely cuddle this afternoon. His pain medication has come down today and he doesn’t seem to need anything extra so hopefully that means that his bits ‘n’ bobs don’t hurt as much today. So all in all a good day.