John had his VNS replaced again on Jan. 3. Over the last several months John's seizures had gotten progressively worse so we made an appt. to get the VNS checked. It was dead or close to it. So, that pretty much convinced us that the VNS was actually helping him so we had no choice but to get it replaced.
John did great during the surgery and once out of the general anesthesia he did not want to stick around so we left the hospital almost immediately. We were at Subway literally 90 minutes after he woke up. Crazy kid.
It was a challenge to keep him from taking the bandage off but with very close supervision we were mostly successful for the required 2 days. He then took the steri-strips off almost immediately but the wound looks like it is healing very nicely so no worries.
John has had a couple of bad days since the surgery, but overall he is doing MUCH better. They just turned it on a very low setting during the surgery but it has really helped him.
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