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Well yeah, Charise is still a bit dizzy and not just in a blond way . I guess all those brain fluids are having to equalize or something.
Anyway, it’s sounding more like Friday now, her cranial swelling (which is causing the swelling, double vision, dizziness and pretty much everything else right now) still hasn’t gone down according to the CT today. Just a little longer though. To say she is getting ancy, well it might be a bit of a understament.

Her direct room number is:
415-353-8109

I’m sure she would love some calls though she is a little hard to understand still, I mean more so then normal .

Definitly looking like we won’t be home until whensday late or thursday. Charise is doing well though over all and can’t wait to get home.

Last couple days Charise has had a bit of a leak in the night from her stitches. They put some staples in today and sent her off for her MRI and CT, but if that doesn’t fix it they they might have to put in a shunt. Thought the staples are  looking promising since it hasn’t leaked since they went in. Unfortunately they are talking Wednesday now, which means probable not going home tomorrow.

No idea how folks without good insurance manage something like this, scary to think about.

Sorry not much posting today. I was at the hospital this morning but had to take kaily back to sunnyvale for the afternoon, tomorrow she will go to daycare so I can head back up. With a bit of luck we should have some new info tomorrow and a better idea when she will be coming home.

Christa has been staying at the hospital tirelessly (or tiredly as more likely the case but she doth protest that she is fine).
The last couple days we have had some great visits. Susie from School, Barb, the Walker-Shaw clan (with jamba juice!), my Mom and Dad, Richard Anthony… and of course…

Some problems with her line this morning making it hard to get her stuff. She is also hungry but can’t eat.
Thank you for all the great flowers and stuff

ok we are moving out of the icu (yeah!). charise still can’t swallow so she will be here at UCSF through the weekend. I’ll post contact and visting info in a couple hours.

Well it’s friday morning and we are back up at ucsf. Looks like charise will be in the ICU for another day or so. She still has a lot of double vission caused by swelling. she is also still having trouble swallowing and talking (still can’t eat).

Ah, no new posts until tomorrow, sorry. Christa and I left around 3:30 when they where taking Charise down for that MRI. I’ll have an update in the morning when we get back up to sf (came home to get Kaily back on her normal schedule)

They are trying to get Charise down for the followup MRI. Some trafic managemwnt issues with transport, they have been trying to get this togather all day :p. Anyway I think it’s all just the normal hospital shuffle.
I hope to have contact and visting info tomorrow, as of right now she still can’t swallow to eat so she has to stay in the icu.
The nurses sem to be doing a bang up job. All and all so far this has been way better then our experence at Goodsam’.

we are over at ucsf this morning, charise is doing a lot better then last night. Still in ICU, and having some trouble talking and swallowing do to swelling. Dr. Parnasas was by but more less said the same stuff. What is left is to micro scopic to see or treat and will just have to be watched for a while. He didn’t feel there would be any issues and based on the operation and how Charise is doing now that she should make a full recovery.

Ok so we are back at my Moms house. for those who missed it (somehow my posts got out of order, not sure why). Charise is doing well. they managed to get 95% or so of the tumor. She will need some regular follow up MRI’s but it’s basically gone at this point. It is also benign, which is perhaps the best news (though a final say on that is pending, the Dr. seemed very comfortable with that prognosis. With a little luck I’ll have more news in the morning after meeting with the Dr. and getting a full explanation. Main issue now is pain management and staying on track. With a little luck she will be moved to recovery tomorrow and then be home in a few days.

I spoke to the Dr. The short version is that things couldn’ have gone better. It was exactly what they thought and benign.

we just got back to ucsf, don’t know anything yet accept she is now in the icu.

They are saying a few more hours in surgery.

They called Christas cel phone (not sure what’s up with that), anyway they are still in surgery and report that everything is going well. No projection on the end time yet on the message. I’m going to give them a call and see if I can get some particulars.

Actually I tend to think of it as bias neutral, no news is…. well no news, and that is exactly what I have as of 4pm.

The operation was original ranged from 6 to 12 hours, we are coming just inside the 6-7 hour mark depending on exactly when they started.

I’ll update as soon as I have something.

In the mean time I will put some pics up from Kaily playing at the exploratorium (which hasn’t changed much since I was a kid but is now 3x the cost ).

9:30am Charise is in surgery and it is goung fine so far.