Thursday, May 03, 2007

Great News!

Luca had an MRI and a CT Scan Friday - and they look "great!"

A#1 - The syrinx in getting smaller!!! It's not that much smaller but a) it's not under pressure and b) it's not getting bigger = the news we've been waiting for since Luca was 4 weeks old. This means his spinal cord is no longer in danger, and that the surgery this summer worked.

#2, and only slightly less amazing - Luca's neck looks "fine": the slipped cervical disk is indeed stable, and there is no need to do anything about it (i.e. surgery to fuse the vertabrae = nightmare for a little boy who needs to grow.)

And only slightly less well known is this: never go against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line!

Needless to say, Frank is doing cartwheels for the both of us (much to Luca's embarassment...)

5 comments:

KBB said...

Oh man, oh man, oh MAN!

Am sending this around to my family, etc. Also, I sent around the Red Cross picture....I'll forward to you the comments.

Kisess, kisses and more kisses for all of you

Mars said...

What a wonderful birthday present, Luca!

storminomahoney said...

Yay yay yay!!!

...and Luca...I'd be embarrassed too.

Anonymous said...

Praise God. There is no better news than this!

Lisette said...

first i laughed at the princess bring line, then i laughed at the fact that luca (while spinal cord safe) has yet to loose his ever flexible frog legs.. oh i miss my little pooch