Saturday, June 2, 2012

Soooo Much Happiness!

In my last blog I talked about McKenna's newest Dr at the pain management clinic in St Paul.  She has now gone through her sets of shots in the back of her head with little to no relief.  The Dr kept his word and referred us to a surgeon to do the peripheal nerve block stilmulator surgery.  I never thought I'd be excited about one of my children having surgery involving their brain but this comes with such enthusiasm.  Because she did get relief even though brief they believe that this implant will work great for her.  They will make an incision in the back of her hairline (she's nervous about getting her head shaved a bit) where they will then place the electrodes, not sure of how many yet, on the nerves that are crushed from her accident.  Those electrodes will then be hooked up to a pacemaker which will be implanted either in her chest wall or abdomen and trick her brain into thinking there are no pain signals. 

I received the call Friday from the surgeons office telling me they have the order written and are just waiting for prior authorization from our insurance companies.  As soon as that happens she could be in surgery within 2 weeks!!!  The thought of this working still seems too good to be true as she has lived in such severe pain in the back of her skull for 16 months.  She doesn't know what she'd do if she could sleep all the way through the night or brush her hair without crying.

I am so thankful to all of you who pray for her! I will keep you posted......

Love,Lisa