Andrea's Apppointment....

We met with Dr. Nagib today and he is very sweet and very compassionate. He called Andrea back to the room and talked to Her for a bit asking her what her name is and how old she is etc... and then we led us to view Andrea's MRI. He went on to show us the Cephalocele and where it was located and what it looked like and asked if we had any questions about it.. We then walked back to his office and he sat on a chair at our level and talked to us..
He drew Andrea's head on his scrubs and showed us how he would fix this...and described what it is..and how they repair it.
(Andrea thought drawing on his pants was pretty Cool)!!!

They do not shave her head, they braid her hair around where they will do the incision, as he said he does not want a child to have to through that, and he said he is all for keeping their hair. ( he has long hair)
Then they do an S incision about 3-4 inches long and so it should not leave a big scar and the they put the tissue together by strands and then take a part of the bone from her scalp that they shave and it will eventually heal completely as bone will keep growing, (kind of like skin when cut)
He said she will be in the hospital for a day or 2 depending on how she does post op.

What she has in Occipital Atretic Cephalocele and will not know if it a dermal Sinus Tract until he is in her scalp actually doing surgery but did not think it is into the Sinus tract, from the MRI.

He said he was glad that we got her in and had this checked out, as some kids end up getting an infection in the brain and getting meningitis from an cephalocele and it comes on so quick, that most do not make it....

I really like him and feel Andrea is in Perfect hands with him so with that,

Andrea is set her to have her surgery on November 19th @ 1pm at Minneapolis Children's...
Alexa has an field trip that day, but may have her take the day to be with us and her sister at the hospital.
After Andrea's Appointment today, we went to Matt's.. Home of the Juicy Lucy! YUM YUM!