Back to the Hospital

So our first night home wasn't quite what we expected. The evening was good and then at midnight Jackson woke up screaming. Nothing we did would comfort him or calm him down. A few hours into it he threw up and still continued to scream. He finally fell asleep but not for long and when he woke he screamed some more. We tried pain meds and they didn't work so we called the NS who said to come in for a CT. We tried the pain meds one more time and when they didn't work we went back to the hospital. They did another CT and the results showed that the ventricles were enlarged, which meant back to the O.R. The surgery was yesterday around 5pm. They found some blockage around the catheter of the shunt and they decided to put in a whole new catheter. He was pretty tired last night after surgery and slept well with not a whole lot of meds. He woke around 2am and wanted to play with his tractors and watch Little Einsteins. He's been in a much better mood this morning and playing quite a bit. At the moment he is sleeping. The NS came in a few minutes ago and said we were free to go home, again. He did another CT this morning and things look good. When they did the cranial expansion his head is now sort of sunken in, kinda like another soft spot. Yesterday it was bulging and he had the same symptoms he had in the past with malfunctions. Today it is not and we feel comfortable that his shunt is working. The NS also showed us how to pump it to check it. Once he wakes up we'll head home again, hopefully with better results. We'll keep you posted.