The San Francisco Giants fan beaten into a coma by some degenerates outside of Dodger Stadium earlier this season had to undergo emergency surgery earlier this week, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
According to a post on the family’s website, doctors had to do the surgery Monday morning after fluid built up in Stow’s head and prompted a 30-second seizure. Such seizures can cause further brain damage.
The family said Stow’s doctor, Geoff Manley, removed a prosthetic bone flap that had been put in Friday and then removed a “growth” he discovered. Stow had been without a portion of his skull since his initial surgery in Los Angeles after the March 31 beating.
Manley then installed a device to help drain the fluid, the family said.
“The four of us couldn’t get to the hospital fast enough, where we stayed all day by his side,” the family wrote, referring to Stow’s mother, father and two sisters. By the end of the day, they said, Stow was showing “some movements and slight right eye opening.”
This is bad news, but it’s not immediate life-or-death news.