You are not alone.

The hospital staff had given us contact information of families and survivors that are living through what we considered our little corner of hell.  I never realized how important it was to talk to other people that can empathize with you.  One outstanding mother was Joann.  Her son had a very difficult time with complications.  She is strong and resilient and always remained positive.  I am trying to emulate her but I can be pessimistic by nature.

The complications disturbed me.  Wasn’t it bad enough that my boy was going to undergo drastic surgeries?  Now there were the very real possibilities of complications.  They are the sort of thing you know are possible but you don’t want to think of.  They happen to someone else, right?  Something akin to a plane crash or earthquake disaster (or congenital heart defect).