The delicate brain surgery that little Samuel, 9, underwent, went “as planned” on Wednesday.
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At around 7.30pm, Samuel Méthot, who suffers from severe epilepsy, was preparing to go to his parents after undergoing very rare brain surgery at Montreal Children’s Hospital.
According to the medical staff, who kept the mother Meggie Perron informed throughout the day, the operation went “well”.
patience
“We’re recharging our batteries and can’t wait to see him concretely wake up tomorrow [jeudi] evening,” said her mother, who was told her waking hours could be “very long.”
At the end of the day, she admitted that she was starting to show signs of stress.
“The nerves were starting to get brittle. I couldn’t wait to see it, feel it,” she added.
A few hours before the operation, Samuel was very calm, says his mother. “It’s so inspiring to see him,” she says.
Lots of epileptic seizures
The Journal reported yesterday that Samuel Méthot suffers from Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, which causes him to have numerous epileptic seizures every day.
In the early years of his life, he experienced between twenty and fifty seizures a day, causing him violent protrusions.
For this reason, he undergoes a delicate and very rare neurosurgical procedure called a “callosotomy” aimed at severing the “corpus callosum” that connects the two hemispheres of the brain.
The aim is to limit the electrical activity to only one side during epileptic seizures.
So the operation could potentially give Samuel the floor.
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