Dr. Demetrius Lopes

We met with the doctor. He is a rockstar!!! We love him. He is soooo nice. He is truly working on this and has been for awhile now. He is running a multitude of tests to ensure he misses nothing. The surgical procedure will cut an incision from the top of his head down to about his ear, right behind the hairline. He will then cut a square above the eye orbit. He then goes in with a small tool that has a type of ultra sound deal on the end of it that breaks up the large blood clot in the aneurysm and sucks it out. The idea behind this is that diminishing the size of the aneurysm will diminish the edema. He whole heartedly thinks that the edema has been there since the beginning and has been growing the whole time. He is also going to have the drain to the shunt moved outside his head so they can monitor his progress through it better and hopefully ween him from it. He says it will of course be a very tricky surgery but plans on it to be pretty straight forward. The clot can be hard and difficult to suck out. The wall of the aneurysm can be hard to peel away from the brain.... Things like that. Anyway, we all feel very comfortable with this man. Keep your fingers crossed. I will update as much as possible. I can see from the traffic on here how many people read this and he is shocked and we appreciate thw support. Thank you everyone!!!!