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I'll add more info here when I can...
Kriss is scheduled
for surgery on May 5, 2005. Surgery will start 7.30am EDT and last 4-6 hours.
The hospital stay is expected to last 6-8 days or so.
This will be a 'hybrid' surgery. It will consist of craniocervical fusion (c1-c4
being fused together and to my skull) & posterior fossa decompression (cutting
away part of my skull to relieve the crowding of my cerebellum/tonsils etc).
It is expected to relieve a lot of symptoms.
Surgery will be
at:
North Shore Hospital (Long Island
Jewish Health System)
300 Community Dr., 3 Levitt
Manhasset, NY 11030
(516) 562-0100
Kriss will not be able to use her mobile phone in the hospital. If you need/want
to call her directly call the above number and ask for her room...pls be understanding
that she'll have just had brain surgery and might not be up for calls. Otherwise
you can call the main Killer Banshee # (510.444.2649) or Eliot's mobile phone
directly (which is the same as Kriss' but ends in a 6 instead of a 0).
Eliot will try to post an update here after surgery.
The current diagnoses from the neurosurgeon at The Chiari Institute is: Variant of Chiari I Malformation, functional cranial settling, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and possible chronically raised intracranial pressure.