He has a shaved patch on the front left section of his forehead where they drilled a hole through the skull and inserted a drain to release the fluid. The plan for the next few days is to let the fluid continue to drain at its own pace and just monitor it. Once it seems to have stopped, it is a relatively "simple" procedure to pull the drain out of the skull and stitch the scalp up. Over the next few months the body will automatically register that there is a hole in the skull and will send signals to produce new bone material there which will fill in the hole they drilled. I am certainly thankful for doctors who know what they are doing, but the more I learn, the more I'm amazed at how God has designed our bodies to try to fix things that are wrong with it.
Tomorrow the speech pathologist or therapist will come by and we'll see how the eating goes.
The hematologists and neurologists will be discussing how the seizure medications are affecting the levels of "things" in his blood and discussing what medications will be a good long term solution. Hopefully we will have some good answers there before he goes home.
Once again, thanks for your prayers. Hopefully we can go home sooner than later, but not until his issues are sufficiently resolved.
Ben