Geek Habitat

Erika & Jay’s baby, Samson, is out of surgery. Read more over on SnazzyKat.com. And to think us average folk ever think we have things rough! An infant with 6+ hour surgery, followed by several days of leaving his chest cavity open, and an extended stay in the hospital? Nevertheless, these are wonderful things because they give Sammy a very good chance at life, but how easy that is to say when it isn’t your little one on a ventilator with wires and IV’s full of impossibly difficult to pronounce meds flowing through his little bloodstream.

It’s a good thing Dr. “Bones” McCoy isn’t around. “How barbaric!” he’d probably say. And in his era, it is, but today’s cutting edge still sadly involves cutting sometimes. Maybe someday we’ll have medical tricorders and the curing of all manner of injuries and diseases without ever having to resort to blood, cuts, sutures or titanium screws!

All the best to the Snazzy family, and really everyone raising a youngster with any condition that most of us have to be educated on before we have any words, and even then, frequently not the right ones. (Rob, Dana & Schuyler, that’s for you.)