This is one of the nicest things anyone has said to me in a long time and it made me all weird and and I didn't know how to respond so I just avoided the thread because I'm a turbo sperg. Thank you.
Fortunately, fixing a clogged shunt is not quite as involved as installing a new one. They're designed so that the tubing part can be changed out without actually needing to mess with the brain. I hope your friend's boy is feeling better now. It seems like the kind of thing where once it's fixed, the relief is pretty much instantaneous, but surgery is surgery. He's gotta be tough if he made it at 25 weeks!
I actually think she doesn't have enough brain left to experience REM sleep, which is pretty mind-blowing, no pun intended. Like I've said before, she really is treading wholly new ground here in terms of her neuroanatomy and the manifestations thereof. Who knows what is going on when she's "asleep". I'm curious if it's a regular, cyclical thing or if she just periodically goes into standby mode. Is it synchronized with light and dark cycles? Can she be roused? Are there behavioral changes that indicate it's going to happen or does she just kind of go limp? What is her respiratory pattern like while she's...doing whatever it is she's doing? So many questions.
When Luna had that sleep study a while ago, Robyn was weirdly silent about the results, which makes me think that it was very abnormal in a way that can't be spun to sound better. I mean, obviously it was very abnormal but Robyn's reaction to it was unusual.
