Preparing for Surgery

Scott is scheduled for surgery tomorrow afternoon.  Doctors plan to replace the "right bone flap" that was removed to reduce pressure from swelling in his brain.  Doctors are anxious to get the skull bone back in place in hopes that it will cause his brain to shift.  (His brain apparently shifted some as a result of swelling and placing the skull bone back on may trigger it to shift back.)  This surgery is also good news because Scott is not keen on wearing a helmet.  Until Scott has this bone replaced he is required to wear a helmet if he out of bed.  Jen requested that the nurses try to move him to chair during some of his awake time but, apparently Scott fought off the nurses when they attempt to put a helmet on him.  Maybe the helmet will not longer be required when the bone is back in place and healed?

Scott is starting to be awake a little more often.  Unfortunately, it seems the times he is most awake (early morning and again in the evening) are generally not the times people are able to visit.  By the time Jen arrives in the morning he is usually sound asleep again.  This is a bit frustrating, because it means that he is also asleep when physical therapy and speech therapy come by to work with him.  Also, Scott has not been tolerating the liquid diet.  It is difficult to tell at this point whether it is the type of food or the quantity they are giving him.  The doctors are trying to work this out through trial and error.  These are just a few minor obstacles along his road to recovery.