Done with surgery

The surgeons just came and updated us. They are done with surgery but the anesthesiologist and others still have to finish things up before we can see Grant. So about 45 minutes. They said it went well. The cysts in the brain cavity came out easily and did not appear to impact the brain itself. If there was any hole in the dura, which was our big concern, it was very small and there may not have been a hole at all. They put a stitch in just to be sure though. The largest of the cysts was right at the top of the nose on the skull. The bone had eroded around it so there was a void there which they filled with a bone graft that they said went very well. The cyst on the tip of his nose, the only visible one which tipped us off to this whole thing, had collapsed the cartilage down so he will have a bit of a flat nose for a while. They will do a follow-up surgery in a few years to fix that. It sounds like he will look pretty scary at first. No bandages so the scars will be visible. He will have a drain on his head for a few days and he will swell up a lot this weekend, but that was all expected. Now we are just waiting outside the ICU to see Grant when they bring him back.