Since the surgery to repair the spinal fluid leak didn't work, the surgeon decided take a two pronged approached. First he was going to re-stitch the area while applying some adhesive to the wound. That was the easy part. He was also going to do a lumbar puncture in order to drain off some of the spinal fluid. By lowering the amount of spinal fluid he was hoping to keep the scar dry and help it to heal better. By the way, a lumbar puncture is a spinal tap.
The lumbar puncture is a painful, painful procedure. There is just no way to prepare for it.
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