Will My Son Survive the Surgery? by Peter and Nina Mottolese

We went into our son’s journey with many fears and questions. Before Peter’s surgery, we met with the team of experts: a neurologist, a craniofacial surgeon and an anesthesiologist. These miracle workers answered and explained in detail what each doctor’s role would be. On the day of Peter’s surgery we could not hold our child close enough, knowing we had to hand him over to these strangers, not knowing if we would see him again. As a mother, my last words to the anesthesiologist when handing him our son while crying uncontrollably was “promise me our son will wake up”. 

As first time parents and a mother who was told she would never bear her own child, it broke our hearts to find out our six month old baby would have to undergo this incredibly complicated surgery. All of our struggles with infertility and our disappointments and heartaches, would never compare to the way we felt knowing our little baby had to endure this journey. 

The Jorge Posada Foundation always had someone to answer our call and provided us with a mentor who was able to answer our questions and calm our fears. Our mentor provided us with a detailed account of his own family’s personal journey. The foundation gave us confidence and provided us with the strength to face our own challenge head on.