Surgery continues
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 29, 2013 7:02pm Surgery still in progress. They began around 2:30 p.m.
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“Next-Case” Status
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 29, 2013 11:59am Taylor is on a next-case status today for his second neurosurgery of the week. As soon as the OR opens up, he’s next in line. This is also a very complicated surgery; there will be two (perhaps three) surgical teams today.
“Next-Case” Status
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 29, 2013 9:09am Taylor is on a next-case status today for his second neurosurgery of the week. As soon as the OR opens up, he’s next in line. This is also a very complicated surgery; there will be two (perhaps three) surgical teams today.
Neurosurgery Pt. 2 moved to Friday
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 27, 2013 6:48pm Surgical teams have pushed Taylor’s surgery to Friday. OR got jammed today, and although they thought “late afternoon,” by 4 p.m. they figured it best to push to the next available morning. Taylor is doing well – he is enjoying his convalescence.…
Surgery Pt. 2
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 27, 2013 4:29pm Taylor is recovering very well from Surgery Pt. 1, and is waiting for Pt. 2 which will take place late this afternoon. He is in great spirits, and is right now listening to old Bill Cosby standup on Pandora, and laughing out…
Neurosurgery Pt. 2
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 26, 2013 12:54pm Neurosurgery Pt. 2 is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. That’s the one where they repair fractures from the bottom of the cranial floor, through the nose. Taylor is healing well and recovering quickly from Pt. 1. There will be a Pt.3 – when…
Neurosurgery Pt. 1 Complete
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 23, 2013 2:00pm The first of two surgeries was completed at 11:45 this a.m. Surgeons feel they successfully filled/sealed *multiple* breaches in the cranial floor. Fractures were present in the posterior and anterior portions of the cranial floor that have been leaking and communicating with…
Emergency Neurosurgery
by Lisa Ansay — Mar 22, 2013 5:38pm Previous brain surgeries (last summer) were successful in patching the cranial floor behind the frontal/upper sinus. The patching remedied leaking of cerebral spinal fluid that seeped through the fractures in his skull. As the brain heals, it changes shape a bit, or…
Scary Times – Neurosurgeons convening…
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 22, 2013 3:15pm Taylor went into the hospital through ER for doctor’s to investigate the source of infection causing Taylor’s fevers to spike, and general malaise. Upon entering the hospital, and the processes involved with intake, two doses of a critical medication were missed (or…
Minor bump in the road
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 20, 2013 8:55pm Taylor is back at the hospital – his neurosurgeon wants to run some tests to make sure he’s ok. Taylor has been running some crazy fevers. Then today , normal temps all day. They still want to be sure….
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“Next-Case” Status
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 29, 2013 11:59am Taylor is on a next-case status today for his second neurosurgery of the week. As soon as the OR opens up, he’s next in line. This is also a very complicated surgery; there will be two (perhaps three) surgical teams today.
“Next-Case” Status
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 29, 2013 9:09am Taylor is on a next-case status today for his second neurosurgery of the week. As soon as the OR opens up, he’s next in line. This is also a very complicated surgery; there will be two (perhaps three) surgical teams today.
Neurosurgery Pt. 2 moved to Friday
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 27, 2013 6:48pm Surgical teams have pushed Taylor’s surgery to Friday. OR got jammed today, and although they thought “late afternoon,” by 4 p.m. they figured it best to push to the next available morning. Taylor is doing well – he is enjoying his convalescence.…
Surgery Pt. 2
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 27, 2013 4:29pm Taylor is recovering very well from Surgery Pt. 1, and is waiting for Pt. 2 which will take place late this afternoon. He is in great spirits, and is right now listening to old Bill Cosby standup on Pandora, and laughing out…
Neurosurgery Pt. 2
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 26, 2013 12:54pm Neurosurgery Pt. 2 is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. That’s the one where they repair fractures from the bottom of the cranial floor, through the nose. Taylor is healing well and recovering quickly from Pt. 1. There will be a Pt.3 – when…
Neurosurgery Pt. 1 Complete
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 23, 2013 2:00pm The first of two surgeries was completed at 11:45 this a.m. Surgeons feel they successfully filled/sealed *multiple* breaches in the cranial floor. Fractures were present in the posterior and anterior portions of the cranial floor that have been leaking and communicating with…
Emergency Neurosurgery
by Lisa Ansay — Mar 22, 2013 5:38pm Previous brain surgeries (last summer) were successful in patching the cranial floor behind the frontal/upper sinus. The patching remedied leaking of cerebral spinal fluid that seeped through the fractures in his skull. As the brain heals, it changes shape a bit, or…
Scary Times – Neurosurgeons convening…
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 22, 2013 3:15pm Taylor went into the hospital through ER for doctor’s to investigate the source of infection causing Taylor’s fevers to spike, and general malaise. Upon entering the hospital, and the processes involved with intake, two doses of a critical medication were missed (or…
Minor bump in the road
By Lisa Ansay — Mar 20, 2013 8:55pm Taylor is back at the hospital – his neurosurgeon wants to run some tests to make sure he’s ok. Taylor has been running some crazy fevers. Then today , normal temps all day. They still want to be sure….
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