It's in the little things

Brain surgery is huge. I mean incisions are made in the top of the skull to remove a flap of bone, exposing the brain. The outer covering is cut and the two hemispheres of the brain are slightly pulled apart to expose the corpus callosum. The fibers of the callosum are cut and once the bleeding is controlled the brain covering, bone, and scalp are stitched closed. We knew all of this before it happened. We were told what to expect. Surgery could last eight hours. There could be swelling. All sorts of complications. But we knew it all. We were prepared for the worst. We were ecstatic when the surgeon came out after only four hours to tell us how well Damonito had done. He invited us to the recovery room to see for ourselves. Damonito was asleep but he looked pretty good for just having had his head cut open. There was this small dot on his forehead, a cut, like the point of a knife. We speculated how it got there. So when the surgeon came back we asked. After the stress and worry of Damonito having brain surgery it was the cut from having his head screwed to the table that brought me to tears. No one told us. I guess they assumed we'd know.