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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: skorpion on May 16, 2011, 05:18:58 PM
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the son of my science teacher had a close shave in the past 2 weeks. she didnt give much detail but this sounded pretty bad from what happened to him.
week-1: son wakes up one day, vomiting and unable to stay awake for more than 5 minutes, faints and goes into a relapse. parents call doctor, doctor says get to the emergency room immediately. they get there and soon find out there going to the childrens hospital in the ICU. they take a helichopter there and barley make it before he has a heart attack. doctors give the kid a crapton of IV/Feeding and breathing tubes and he goes into a seizure.
week-2: son has a rare disease (cant remember the name since its extremely long) and they have to operate on his brain for 14 hours straigt. parents are terrified and the doctors find something utterly disturbing. a "bubble" of water on the frontal cortex. doctors do the most technologically advanced method to get rid of it-pop it with a needle-and they screw the skullplate back in. kid is fine and is released in 3 days.
thank god he didnt loose his life. hes a tough little guy! :pray
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:O
thankful he's ok!
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A bubble of fluid in the brain? I think that I might know the name of that disease. I think that it might have something to do with improper drainage of cerebrospinal fluid at the base of the skull.
-Penguin
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hydrocephalus? (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002538/)
wrongway
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Released 3 days after brain surgery? :headscratch:
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Released 3 days after brain surgery? :headscratch:
The brain, itself, feels no pain.
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Released 3 days after brain surgery? :headscratch:
thats what she told us, im not sure thats completely true though...
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Released 3 days after brain surgery? :headscratch:
Yes, it was not brain surgery. My sister was released 8 days after a brain aneurism so 3 for opening and closing the scull is not as short as you think.
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Yes, it was not brain surgery. My sister was released 8 days after a brain aneurism so 3 for opening and closing the scull is not as short as you think.
Exactly.
It was cranial surgery to relieve the hydraulic pressure on the brain.
Big difference
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hydrocephalus? (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002538/)
wrongway
Thank you, that's exactly the disease that I had thought of.
-Penguin
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Released 3 days after brain surgery? :headscratch:
Probabley still has a while to rest at home. Once you're able to by yourself walk, take a shower, and get on and off the toilet, the hospital could let you stay longer if you really wanted to...
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UPDATE: the kid is at home, doing well but has to go thru therapy. when all this happened he forgot how to do everything. and they meant EVERYTHING. he has to re-learn how to read, write, walk, run, talk ect...
at least hes young enough that it wont make a big impact on his life.
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Was his memory wiped?
-Penguin
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Yes, it was not brain surgery. My sister was released 8 days after a brain aneurism so 3 for opening and closing the scull is not as short as you think.
I was thinking risk of infection would require a longer isolation and observation. But, I'm not a doctor.