a battery of surgeries

Damonito has had five major surgeries. His biggest surgery wasn't even the most distressing. Although his brain surgery was scary and huge he came through it like a trooper and recovered rapidly. It was his tonsils, outpatient for most people, that caused the greatest stress.

He had an anaphylactic reaction which caused seizures which caused unresponsiveness for several days while we had no idea whether he was going to pull out of it or not.


So when Nicole texted me on Wednesday to tell me that Damonito was having surgery on Friday to change his VNS battery that had gone dead, I was more than a little concerned.
I had a huge knot in my stomach when the intern said "this will be a walk in the park compared to his other surgeries." Yea. We'd heard that before.

The upshot is, the surgery went well. Damonito did great. He's home. He's happy. And he has a new battery for his VNS that is tiny compared to the last one he had.