A Long Day

Karyn had her surgery tonight at about 5:30. Details are still not
entirely clear but the gist of it is this. They did the flush
procedure and found no source of infection. Dr. Parsa then decided to
go into the cranial cavity and discovered an infected cyst. This
explains many things----the drainage, the headaches and the infection
symptoms such as the fever. Additionally, Dr. Parsa said that, while
in there, he saw no signs of active tumor.

Of course, the news of the tumor (or lack thereof) is fantastic and
Karyn will love to hear this. But nearly as good is the discovery of
the source of the infection for surely this will lead to the
alleviation of a lot of Karyn's immediate symptoms.

She is still in the recovery room in the OR awaiting a bed and will
surely be in ICU for the next two days, perhaps a bit more. Though
this stretch of the road turned out to be a little bumpier than we
thought, we now have the information that has been hiding from us---
the information we needed right about now.

~Julian