A frightening time for our family…
The past couple of days have been very worrisome. Ben’s medical tests began shortly after 9:30 Thursday morning. He was scheduled to have an MRI and an angiogram, with testing to last a minimum of four hours.
However, once the tests were underway they revealed that the fistula in his brain (the one that had been repaired a year ago) had reopened. Ben was admitted to the hospital, and his mom notified us that, “They are going into surgery now to repair it. It is life threatening.” Once again, Dr. B went in through a vein in Ben’s groin and inserted tiny platinum coils, each only as wide as a human hair, into the fistula in Ben’s brain. It was just after 6:00 p.m. when Ben came out of surgery. An extremely long day, but the operation was a success!
Our little guy has been bolstered by so many…
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