The Brain is still healing

Livie Bug and her dad after surgery

Daddy & Alyvia snoozing at the Hospital together

Livie still has the lumbar drain in, her neurosurgeon is out of town so we are waiting for him to come back and decide what needs to be done. Everyone else is saying that Alyvia will need a shunt put in her brain because her CAT scan showed that she still has a lot of fluid in the ventricles in her brain, I have felt really good about everything though, so I don't know if a shunt is what needs to be done, shunts have such a risk of infection and getting clogged.....

Also, Alyvia is going to have an opthamology exam because she does not seem to be tracking and seeing. Sometimes it seems like she can see, but whenever we hold objects in front of her, she can't see them. Because the tumor was in her brain stem (one of the worst places because the brain stem controls so many different functions) her vision might be permanently damaged. I am hopeful though because she's already amazed the doctors with her progress.

She has an MRI and another ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow so I will keep you all posted on those results.