I attended a ladies meeting at church yesterday evening and when I got home, Philip was already in bed. Once I got into bed, Philip kept crying every 20 minutes or so and the cry seemed different. I kept checking on him and trying to get him settled in and comfortable. Finally, when I checked on him around 11:15, I noticed the area around his shunt was swollen again. It was just like it was in August when the tubing in his valve broke. Ben and I began to make plans for another ER visit. We knew most likely nothing would be done last night so Ben decided he would go and I would stay at home with the little ones until this morning. Philip's CT scan and x-Ray were almost identical to his former ones in August when this happened. It was really odd then that the tubing broke so it is absolutely perplexing that it would happen again.
He'll have surgery today to replace the tubing. The neurosurgeon has been by and she has a couple more surgeries before she fits him in. It will be a few hours still. The good thing is that Tuesday is his normal fasting day so fasting for surgery has not been as hard for him.
Please pray the surgery goes as smoothly as last time and that she can help the tubing to be stabilized so it's not likely to happen again.