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Date Posted: 15:28:20 03/13/07 Tue
Author: Marla
Subject: Update about Ethan

So the third ventriculostomy didn't work....we have tried 3 times unsuccessfully to see if it would....he is leaking out of the site of the external drain. Plans at this point are to have surgery on Thursday to put in a new shunt.....then if all goes well we may be able to come home on Sunday or Monday. Kevin went home on Saturday to straighten out some farm stuff and bring back supplies...So I've been here on my own for 4 days....I have been blessed by some company...really good friends of ours came on Friday, our minister visited, then other friends on Sunday and the best medicine for Ethan was that his best friend Abby came for a visit on Sunday...we were truly thankful for that visit with all the cards from school and a bear and his laptop! Today is Tuesday ( I think?) and my great friend Betty came and brought my mom (lots of tears today) So Kevin plans to return tomorrow until we go home? or until Monday, if we end up here longer.

Worries for now for me are chances of infection with a new shunt...which would mean a more extended stay. Ethan's spirits are good...he feels fine as the external drain is doing all the work...therefore no headaches...but we try to explain that we can't go home with that hanging out of his head! He is very homesick...doesn't like the big city wants to go home to the country. So when he starts to tear up it's hard for mom here to stay composed. Again we take it day by day.......thanks for your well wishes....they mean alot to me and my family..........Marla

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