23 March 2011

If you thought brain surgery before your first birthday was hard...

...try post-op seizures on Day 3 of an otherwise on-track recovery. Thankfully, Baby Zoe has stabilized after a scary bout of unresponsiveness, muscle spasms and respiratory distress last night. (And that's only what it looked like from the outside.) Sharon, one of our nurses who is on mommy-duty for Zoe, caught the early warning signs and a team of nurses and the doctor pumped Zoe full of anti-seizure meds to bring her back. Saturday's operation, the surgical removal of a blackberry-sized tumor between her lobes (plus 4 pea-sized ones scattered about her brain), was a bit much for our sweet 11 month old from Zhengzhou.

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