Headed for Surgery (No Pun Intended)

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We heard from the neurosurgeon's office on Monday. Peter has cranial synostosis and we will need to attend the cranial-facial clinic in February. The CT scan results have been sent to one of the cranial-facial surgeons at MCV for his review and staff at MCV will be working on a list of proposed surgery dates.

At this point, unless Peter starts exhibiting some of the more severe symptoms of synostosis (seizures and so forth from intra-cranial pressure) he will have the surgery sometime in February or March (he turns five in March-- what a way to spend a birthday.)

I'm okay, I just think it stinks and I hate the idea of putting him through all of this but he has to have the surgery. Otherwise, the condition eventually becomes life threatening.

I'll keep posting as things progress.

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