Update: He is out of surgery and stable.
Pray for Warren Strain as he is undergoing brain surgery right now. His wife posted on Facebook:
Please remember to keep Warren in your prayers. I spoke to his doctor not long ago and of course he had to tell me all of the risks involved in this surgery. Needless to say, I just could not contain myself the tears began to fall. He did say this IS a high risk surgery. And it is an opportunity to give my sweet angel a decent quality of life. This is NOT guaranteed to work but at the very least gives Warren a 50 / 50 chance to have a quality of life in regards to his brain. And maybe he will be able to communicate once the fluid and swelling is gone. And just in case you wonder Warren is not hurting at all. It is opposite actually, he is content and pain free praise God. He just does not have the drive. It is that drive that pushes him to fight to get better. And that is the Warren I know and love. He is a fighter and just sitting is not in his DNA.She posted last week:
My prayer is this will be safe and gives his precious brain a chance to be pressure free from fluid. This was by NO means an easy decision, I have prayed and prayed and cried and cried and months ago our neurosurgeon said we will probably have to have this done. When he suggested it months ago I said no lets wait. Now that the fluid is back for a second time we really don’t have a choice. My prayer is God has led us this far and he will not forsake us. Warren deserves every single chance in the universe to be able to come home and at least be able to communicate.
I will update as soon as I hear anything. Surgery is at 11 am Atlanta time, (if the operating room is free at that time) tomorrow morning and he will remain in ICU for at least 24 hours.
Update: Warren does have fluid on the brain and some swelling, for my medical people it's Communication Hydrocephalus. He will have surgery next week to put in a permanent VP Shunt which will allow the fluid to exit the brain and empty into the duodenum. (Don't quote me on that part) They will do this next week and they have not given me an exact time or date. I do have all the faith in the world in the hospital and the team so I know he's in great hands. It has just been so much it's overwhelming. I pray to God it will go smoothly and safely. And I pray to God it helps with his communication and the way he feels over all. We did a FaceTime today and he didn't look very good to me. I'm trying so hard not to worry. It is really hard not to worry when you love someone so much.
9 comments:
Praying that the outcome is what is in his and your best interest.
@11:30 - It is not your place to judge whether Mrs. Strain is doing this for her sole benefit, nor to judge the medical advice she has received, nor to opine on what constitutes a quality of life worth "all this".
Mrs. Strain - your family is in our family's prayers and best wishes. Please keep us updated on his progress.
please keep us updated.
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Prayers sent
Praying!
KF, please keep the updates coming.
Prayers! 🙏🙏🙏🙏
If the only comments you publish are “prayers,” with or without the silly clasped-hands emoticons, then why bother doing an update at all? You deleted a post from my brother-in-law, a retired neuro specialist, that (kindly, but factually, I thought) offered the opinion that this man is not ever going to have any sort of life, ever again. And whoever said (again, before being deleted) that the wife is keeping him alive for herself...well, perhaps that is something to be considered by this very unfortunate family.
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