quote:I'm sure you know that there is risk involved in these procedures
Indeed I do! That was one source of my nervousness. I am not a fan of general anesthetic. Obviously, it is necessary for a lot of surgical procedures, but it's more or less like half killing someone and waking them back up. So when my son emerged was coherent again after surgery, I breathed a sigh of relief.
Then there's risk of infection ... and so on.
So far so good. These things are done all the time, and the tragedies such as the one you describe (how horrible that is) are very rare, that fact doesn't exactly quell every fear when it is your child!