On January 10th we found that Pompa had a brain tumor called a meningioma. It is the size of a baseball and it is pushing on parts of his brain that control sight, balance, and memory which Pompa has been having problems with. He had surgery on February 6th to have it removed. The surgery went really well until the very end about 5 minutes before the surgery ended when his heart went into ventricular fibrillation and then into cardiac arrest. He was on his stomach with his head in a vice to hold it still so they couldn't shock his heart. So they pushed a bunch of medications to get his heart going, but they cause the pressure in his head to increase. They were worried that it would make his brain bleed or have a stroke. The medicine worked thankfully and got his heart beating again. They got him flipped over and made sure that his heart was stable. They took him to CT to make sure that he didn't have a brain bleed. They finished the surgery and took him to the ICU. They left him ventilated and sedated that night. The next morning, the extubated him and woke him up. Thankfully he seems to be doing really well. He had an MRI and it doesn't look like he had a stroke. He passes all his neuro tests and he is talking, eating, and walking. We know that this is answers to many, many prayers.
Getting the MRI before surgery
1st night after surgery in the ICU
Day after surgery
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