Shunt No More

This morning Archie ate some breakfast and then took a nap. He said he slept pretty well last night but was tired. The Infectious Disease doctor had already been in to see Archie before I got there, early bird. The neurosurgeon came in later that morning and removed the external shunt from Archie's head. Archie described it as he was pulling a weed from the yard, he braced against his head and pulled the tube out(sorry if that was too much information). After that he was cleared to move to the floor and if everything goes according to plan he will be out on Monday. Archie got a PICC line put in which is an IV that runs up his arm to his heart this afternoon. He will have that for the next four to six weeks while they give him IV antibiotics. Archie is calling it his robot arm. That is going to be adventure for us to learn how to take care of IV antibiotics, that it for sure! He had a headache this afternoon but they got it under control with medicstion. Tonight my friend Melissa came up and she had to go dinner with us in the hospital room.