Very calm, the little Samuel, 9 years old, took the way to the operating room, Wednesday morning, at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.
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A little before 8 a.m. Wednesday morning, Samuel Méthot was brought in to be prepared before his major operation, which should begin around 11 a.m. He was in “very good condition,” said his mother, Meggie Perron.
The newspaper reported Wednesday that Samuel Méthot, of Quebec, must undergo today a delicate and very rare brain operation, to treat his severe epilepsy.
He suffers from Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, which causes him to have numerous epileptic seizures on a daily basis.
During his first years of life, he lived between twenty and fifty seizures a day, causing him violent projections forward.
The neurosurgical intervention called “callosotomy” aims to cut the “corpus callosum” which connects the two hemispheres of the brain, in order to limit the electrical activity on one side only, during epileptic seizures.
The intervention might thus possibly allow Samuel to speak.
Calm and zen
Stressed by this long day ahead, Ms.me Perron, said she was impressed by her son’s “Zen” attitude.
She recounts that her boy was “motivated” when he arrived at the hospital on Tuesday. He is super calm. So inspiring to see it,” she said.
Although she will be briefed by medical staff throughout the day regarding the progress of her son’s operation, Ms.me Perron shouldn’t be able to see him until at least 6:30 p.m. Wednesday night.
“He might be up and sleeping all day tomorrow, too,” she said.
More details to come…
