Bump cap

 So Geoff is home and well and driving again. One thing that is driving me silently crazy, is thinking what would happen if he bumps his head, or falls and hurts it. So we ordered something called a bump cap. It looks like an ordinary cap (think those baseball caps they have in America) but is lined with a hard plastic that stands proud of his actual head. So that soft tissue which is what is protecting his brain at the top instead of a fake skull is now protected in turn with a cap. He is also always working with a crutch, more to warn people that he is slow and frail rather than that it is a material help.

Procedure completed Sunday morning

WhatsApp message from Dr Landau, Sunday morning:  Hi Hazel we all done, went well. No dural leak, infected cranioplasty plate which we removed and closed up again. He should be fine now . Going to high care.

I thanked him, when the anaesthetist phoned I asked her if they'd replaced the plate and she said no, the muscle should be enough. So there we are. Here is a photo of him in ICU. I told him to smile for the camera, and he insists he IS smiling!

 

... and now it seems he has to have another procedure.

 It was not pus streaming out of his head, but brain fluid. Apparently one of the clips holding his fake bone in place worked loose, and should be put back soon. So on Sunday it will be an operation at Kingsbury Hospital.

Geoff was looking so well ...

 ... and now he is back in hospital. He was just getting back from the shops, when his head started streaming pus. It was pouring out like a tap. There was a small hole on the side of his scar, and that was what it was leaking from: no injury, it just seemed to split open. So he has had a scan and his doctor will decide what to do tomorrow. Geoff says he does not intend having another operation.