Everything will be alright

September 12.2022

Today I tell you how my son's recovery was after his surgery last April. It was a difficult experience, from the hours in an operating room with a medical team in which you put your child's life in their hands, without knowing anything, the wait, the anxiety, two hours passed, until the expected bell rang, from the phone in the room, the nurse tells me, - mom his child is in recovery, you can go upstairs.

Unconscious even under the effects of anesthesia, covered by the cold of the room, you see him there defenseless, and you think he did not feel pain, but when he wakes up he will feel that something changed in his body, and the pain will appear when the effect wears off painkillers, and you have to prepare for that moment, because how do you make a child understand that the pain will pass, or that they still can't take medication because it's not the time and they have to wait a little longer.

There were some sleepless nights, but he behaved like a brave man, he really surprised me. His operation was orthopedic to achieve some functions in his muscles, which he had lost due to his underlying neurological disease.

Then came 6 long weeks of recovery with the leg immobilized, a cast that covered the entire leg, and that's how he had to spend those weeks, a little uncomfortable to sleep, bath time, but in reality it wasn't that bad, since the he adapted quickly.

Then came the most difficult stage for me. When you spend so much time without walking and you try again, you have to relearn, the leg does not respond when you support it, you feel insecure due to weakness, my son was terrified to walk, he cried what he didn't cry because of the pain he had recently operated on, and I cried with him, because one always fears that he won't walk again, that the operation didn't go well at all. Thus he spent a month of therapies, rehabilitation, and one day the desire to play, to walk, to be himself again, led him to take his first steps.

It's been 6 months since the operation, and I thank all the divine that exists, the doctors, because the operation was a complete success. Now we are ready for the next operation, we have to repeat the entire process that I just told you about, the other foot also has to be operated on. These operations are very important for my boy, since they will improve his quality of life, they directly influence his walk. Now we have a little more experience, and I think that everything will turn out well again, and with love, faith, and commitment we will achieve it 🙏.