Dr. Lopes just came and talked to us. He is very pleased with the surgery and was able to aspirate everything out of the anuerysm. The only thing left is the wall or shell of the aneurysm and he hopes that it will eventually fold up once the brain expands back into place.
He was invited to do a surgery at UCLA on Wednesday and brought dad's case and presented it to some of the doctor's there and they felt that he should go back in there and get more of the bulk of it out. He is hopeful that his left side will come back. He seems to be a perfectionist and he just wasn't happy with the first surgery and he had a lot more confidence in this one.
He said that there is a healing concern with his incision. Once the body starts to heal and then you reopen it kind of tricks the body and makes it harder to heal. Because they had been in there already though, he was able to get right in and spend most the time on the aneurysm. He took some pictures and he is going to put them on a disk and if he doesn't get a chance to show them to us this weekend, he is going to email them to me.
Now it is just another waiting game. He will be off the ventilator tomorrow hopefully. I will keep everyone updated.
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