Sooooo such a confusing time. \u00a0My neurosurgeon says (via my PCP) that nothing will help the CSF leak and I must have surgery to repair it. \u00a0However my MIL’s DO says there is a 50\/50 chance it will heal itself. \u00a0Google says that depending upon the circumstances most CSF leaks resolve themselves. \u00a0Hopefully my chances of not having to have another surgery are improving. \u00a0I would hate more than anything to have to go through that again simply because it would feel like the first surgery was a waste of time. \u00a0After all that we have been through I am not ready to do that again very soon. \u00a0I have also been very nervous the past few days since my neurosurgeon told me (again through my PCP) that there is no real danger associated with waiting and seeing what happens but that there is a risk that my symptoms could come back. \u00a0I think he jinxed me because for several days after that my neck has been very stiff and sore in the right neck muscle. \u00a0It has even limited my mobility looking to the right a bit so I was worried that they were indeed coming back. \u00a0But this morning I noted that the soreness was still here but not as bad and the stiffness is gone. \u00a0Also the lump has been gone for the majority of the day and when it was here it was much smaller than usual. \u00a0I am trying to stay positive and hoping this means the healing is coming along slowly and we are on the right track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sooooo such a confusing time. \u00a0My neurosurgeon says (via my PCP) that nothing will help the CSF leak and I must have surgery to repair it. \u00a0However my MIL’s DO says there is a 50\/50 chance it will heal itself. \u00a0Google says that depending upon the circumstances most CSF leaks resolve themselves. \u00a0Hopefully my chances […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,10,7,14],"class_list":["post-2339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-chiari-malformation","tag-recovery","tag-surgery","tag-syringomyelia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willandadri.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}