Home For The Holidays

Good news!  The neuro surgeon reports that while it is a subdural hematoma, it is a small one.  We stayed overnight for observation and the neuro surgeon has no problem sending us home today provided Clayton continues to act himself.  He felt the first 48 hours were the most important for monitoring purposes.  He also said we did the right thing monitoring Clayton as we did the night following the fall and bringing him in when he began vomitting the next morning.  So hopefully home today!

In other good news, we were thrilled to learn that Clayton's creatinine has dropped slightly over the past week.  What this means is that Clayton's dietary changes and the blood pressure medication are buying us time just as the nephrologist had hoped it would.  His kidney is by no means fixed nor can these changes ever "fix" his kidney.  But his kidney did react to these changes and therefore it seems we have a bit more time to get our ducks in a row.  We are talking about time such as doing a nephrostomy tube in maybe a month verses a week.  So the end goal has not changed.  The kidney is still not going to last us as long as I once hoped, but we have just a little more time if his kidney continues to respond in this way.  However, his kidney could stop responding and trend in the other direction once again at any time.  It's all just wait and see...still.  Check back with docs on this in a week.

Let everyone know if and when we get home today!

With love,

Clayton, Sven and Olaf