Surgery is over!

We just met with Dr. S and his nurse - surgery went very well. Isaac has his new hardware, and is in recovery. We'll be headed to see him very soon!

Dr. S did let us know that Isaac is very sensitive to the neuro-monitoring. He said that once they notice the monitoring start to fade, they can raise his blood pressure, and it will come back. Other times when this happened during the procedure they gave him a bolus of fluids, which also brought back the monitoring. This is significant, as we noticed about a month ago his legs started to get very spastic. After paying closer attention, he was also showing signs of dehydration. Once we got him full of fluids,t he spasticity diminished. So, my theory at that point has been proven. We'd linked the spasticity to the dehydrattion, and felt that it was a good hypothesis, but this pretty well proved it out (or at least Dr. S said that to make me feel smart!).

Hugs!