By the end of the day Friday, we weren't certain how things were going to play out for the remainder of the weekend. We had been told that there was a chance of being released on Saturday, but since we had stayed for two nights following the previous surgery, that didn't really seem likely. And then when Adam had a seizure Friday night, followed by another one on Saturday morning, it seemed even less likely.
When the on-call neurosurgeon (Dr. Donohue...the same one that had performed Adam's November 2011 surgeries) checked in with us on Saturday, he was concerned about the two seizures, and called for a CT scan to verify that something more dire (hemorrhaging, DBS lead out of place, etc.) was not occurring. At that point, we pretty much assumed that we should settle in for another night.
Adam was feeling much better, and we took the opportunity to get a little exercise by patrolling the halls with Tiger Monkey and Rockem' Sockem' Monkey in tow.
At some point before lunch, the neurosurgery nurse practitioner stopped in and let us know that the scans had been read by the radiologist and that she had been able to peek at them and nothing dire was showing up. That was good news, but we still weren't quite prepared for the visit by Dr. Marks (the movement disorder neurologist) a little bit later who told us that he felt that Adam was ready to go home!
Brian hustled back to the Ronald McDonald House to clean up the room and check out, and by 4:00 pm we were on the road north.
Adam has been released to return to school on Monday as long as he doesn't participate in anything too rowdy, so he will have managed to squeeze in brain surgery on fall break without missing any additional classes! That is some serious dedication to his studies!!!
We won't know for a little time if this placement of the lead will be effective or not. At this point we have a tentative appointment to return for the initial programming on November 13, and we'll be keeping our fingers crossed for good results. We'll keep you posted!
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