This is how Ryleigh has spent most of the week. On Wednesday Ryleigh could not keeping any of her food down, she couldn't stay awake, and she was just not acting like herself. We called the doctor's office and were able to get her in that day.
The pediatrician, Dr Granwehr, had some of Ryleigh's blood drawn to do some tests. She thought it was probably just a virus, but because Ryleigh was having trouble staying awake, (and with Ryleigh's history), she wanted us to come back Thursday (yesterday).
On Thursday the blood tests came back normal. Ryleigh was only able to eat 2 ounces at a time and she normally has 5 ounces at a time, she was still sleeping a lot, she whimpered a lot, and now she was having a hard time focusing when she would look at us. So Dr Granwehr told us to go have a CT scan done.
The scan revealed that Ryleigh has excess fluid in her brain which is causing the ventricles to swell. Today we spoke with the pediatric neurosurgeon and Ryleigh will have surgery tomorrow. The neurosurgeon, Dr Cherney, studied Ryleigh's CT scan and he said that it looks like there is some tissue that wasn't there before that is now covering the place where the fluid normally drains out of the brain. So the surgery tomorrow is to create a bi-pass for the spinal fluid. If everything goes well with the surgery she will not need a shunt.
5 comments:
Good Luck Ryleigh!!!
Kirsty I wrote a "beautiful" comment but it never got posted...I am fasting today. I know that Ryleigh is in good hands.
Please know of our love for you all.
Love,
Mom
She is such a beautiful little girl. You are all in my thoughts and prayers. The Lord sure has a lot to teach us through your trials. I am so thankful I know you and can be a part of your life even if it is through the internet.
She is such a pretty girl! I will be praying for her and your family!
That is so scary!!! Poor little girl. I hope all went well. If you want access to my blog email me at sweetstar3@gmail.com
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