Well our little friend has had a pretty intense week!! After having surgery on Wednesday, he developed severe headaches and a CT scan showed that he had too much fluid building up in his brain. This is called acute hydrocephalus, and it can be a complication of the original surgery he had. Dr. Justin explained that it's like his body had the fluid balance figured out, and then it was thrown off by the surgery. The surgeons performed another operation yesterday to make a small hole in Yokosafati's brain, which should help things balance out again. As you can imagine, two surgeries in one week is a lot! But we're thankful that his headache and vomiting have stopped, and that's a really good sign. The ICU nurses and his mom are taking great care of Yokosafati, and we encouraged his mom today that lots of people all over the world are praying for them!

Yokosafati had his surgery yesterday! Dr. Justin Onen and visiting neurosurgeon Dr. Bui Khuong Duy from Vietnam worked together to repair his myelomeningocele. He's now recovering in our ICU with his mom. He has a bit of a fever and is having some problems with recurring vomiting so our nurses are keeping a close eye on him! Thank you for praying for him and his mom as he continues to recover today.

Yokosafati cracked us up this morning! Yesterday someone had given him a little shark stuffed animal and apparently it plays the "Baby Shark" song. When we visited during morning rounds, he was listening to it on repeat. Seems like that song is catchy all over the world. A friend of his explained that he didn't realize it played music, so when the song came on the first time, he was so surprised he jumped up and ran away - but now he really loves it, of course. He is having his surgery today, so please be praying for him! (and now we have the Baby Shark song stuck in our head: "Baby shark, do do do do do...")