Monday, September 10, 2007

"This kid has 9 lives."

That was the phrase that one of the doc's uttered when he saw B at the beginning of his 2nd surgery. Here he is the after the 3rd surgery where they put in the piece they had taken out. The kid has been an amazing trooper.



Parts of his brain are still sleeping and he's going to have to undertake a lot of PT in order to reawaken those areas. But they're the parts that let you walk and do the fun stuff we tend to take for granted like hand/eye coordination.

He is doing better each day. Small steps.

6 comments:

Mick said...

Gaz, I understand better than most. My wife had a temporal lobe meningioma 10 years ago that was golf ball sized. The experience was terrifying on many fronts as the kids were three and five and death was a distinct possibility. To have all that and more for your little fella must have been horrifying. He's a brave one.
Sue made a 100% recovery in the end. She's still the 'Angel of Death' mostly in the nicest possible way. I hope your scallywag is back giving 14 year old grief quicksmart.

Slim said...

Cheers, Gaz. Best of luck getting through this!

Wave Farmer said...

Harris and I send our best...
Over and over again...
Call...

Foul Pete said...
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Foul Pete said...

So he's got a skateboarding nurse? Sorted.

Gaz said...

good looking bloke too btw :-)