Niamh never woke up the night after the MRI but her blood pressure and heart rate were stable, she responded to the eye test they do to check pressure in the head.
However at 8am, when the nurse came to do the hourly obs, Niamh would not wake up at all, her limbs had gone all floppy and the pupils in her eyes were not only huge but not reacting to light. The next thing I knew there were a number of doctors, surgeons, nurses around the bed and I was taken away in a quiet room. There a registrar explained that Niamh had gone into a coma and needed to go into theatre immediately. I was told about the aim of the operation as well as the risks and had to sign a consent form (the first of many).
Then I was able to follow Niamh to the room next to the theatre, kiss her and leave her in the hands of the surgeons.
Then the wait began. We were told the surgery would take 4 to 6 hours. Niamh went into theatre at 9am and came out at 9pm in intensive care. The consultant Mr Kay, explained to us that it had been a very tricky operation, the first part had been to put two drains in her head to relieve the pressure and then the second part to remove as much as possible of the tumour. He believed that they had successfully removed about 60 percent. They seemed quite sure it was a cancerous tumour, but that it would take a couple of weeks to know what we were dealing with.
Mr Kay explained that she had to be in intensive care due to the length of her surgery and also due to the many blood transfusions.
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