Dr Uysal just stopped by the room to chat with Darren. He and Dr. Camarata have been talking all morning.

They will still go in and remove the broken leads and depending on the damage they will either go ahead and remove the leads on just the right side and make the holes on the left bigger and have leads only on the left and keep going on the process (with surgery #2 and#3) or they may tell us that Darren needs to heal from this trauma and come back for the last two surgeries at a later date.

So they have changed their suggestions. Darren told the Doctor he did not want to give up now! He told him he wants to keep going. So there you have it!

We don’t have a scheduled surgery time yet, but it will be today that they go in and survey the damages.

Dr Uysal was just here. Darren pulled out 5 leads and of those 5 there are 3 broken, which means they will be taking him back into surgery today and removing them all and closing him up and outing him on full meds again. We are done with this process.

They could not risk him pulling out the leads again.

Since there are some broken leads there is a chance there is some damage that is not on the CT scan so they will have to be careful.

So Darren is upset and very sorry that it happened there was even a suggestion that what he was doing when he pulled them out was having a seizure. But I guess that doesn’t matter right now.

Today was a downer. Darren woke up every hour last night on his own. When the lumberjack doctor came in he said Darren had another seizure which surprised me because I was there all night. I only slept 3 hours last night. I don’t know how I missed it.
Anyway,  Darren, all of a sudden  got mopey. He said he was done. He wanted to get the leads taken out and he wanted to go home. He refused to eat. We had Psych come and visit with him. They mentioned some depression medication. Those medications usually take four to six weeks to take effect. That won’t do any good.

They asked him what he does for fun. He said volunteer at his son’s school. So while he finished with them I sent an email to the school and when I picked up his son and had cards from the students in his class. Darren smiled for a minute maybe two.

I added some motivation from Zooey Deschanel (sp)

We also brought some Captain America toys.

He did get moved out of ICU. His new room has a waiting room in it. Darren has to sleep with the lights on which is something I can’t do. I keep forgetting my eye mask. The spare room is darker and has it’s own TV as well.

Our Team Bud hoodies arrived today too. So we brought Bud his. Thank you to everyone that has sent an ECard. Darren hasn’t received them yet. I hope they arrive tomorrow. If you would like to send one there is a link on his Facebook account, or you can visit the KU Hospital website under the title of Visitors. They told me earlier today they wanted to add some meds that will help him sleep and stimulate his appetite but I was told they didn’t want that because it can interfere with the seizure data.

When I came back Dr Uysal came into the room and said they did not verify the second seizure, but they got excellent data on his one seizure from Tuesday. So Monday Darren will have his second surgery. We don’t know what time yet, but they want to keep moving forward.

Tonight the Nurse gave him that pill that stimulates appetite and helps with sleep.