Monday, July 26, 2010


Because there are so many friends and family that are praying for my family and especially my son. I thought I would do a blog so that you can all know what is going on. And for those that don't know what's going on this will help fill you in.

Kenneth Carl Schwob was born Aug 6 2005. The doctors were a little concern that his head wasn't shaped correctly. We found out a few weeks later that he had what is called Craniosynostosis. Basically when Kenny was inside of me his to front lopes of his skull fused together. The results surgery at 4 months old. Which he came out with flying colors!
We were told that there was slim chance that he may need surgery later on in life.
As we went to follow up appointments with the neurosurgeon we were in formed that most likely Kenny would not have to have surgery at all.

Fast forward to June 2 of this year. Kenny fell off an inflatable slide at a gym I was attending and got a concussion. We ended up over night at Scottish rite (Children's hospital). They had taken a CAT scan and found something in his skull that didn't look right. So two weeks later Kenny is have an MRI which showed that the inside of Kenny's skull was ridged and not smooth like normal. Also he has Chiari, this is where part of the back of the brain shifts downward through the bottom of the skull area.

Dr. Brahma informed us it looked like his skull was to small for his brain. And wanted to do another test to see how much pressure was on his brain. This would let us know if he would need surgery or not. Dr. Brahma said that if the pressure were low and he showed no systems then there would be no reason to do surgery.

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