Two weeks out from his triple organ transplant, 7-year-old Weston Keeton of Blountville spent Christmas Day intubated and miserable.
Uninterested in opening presents, his response to his parents’ encouragement was to shake his fist and point to the breathing tube inserted down his throat.
“He was mad about the breathing tube, mad about feeling bad and just crabby in general given the specifics of having new organs put in and new lines in places,” his mother, Julie, wrote in a Jan. 1 blog entry on the Weston K Children’s Organ Transplant Association webpage — her first entry since Weston received his new heart and lungs during a Dec. 12 surgery.
On New Year’s Day, Weston was a different kid. His breathing tube was removed. And for the first time since the surgery, he walked. He smiled and laughed and spent a large part of the day playing video games with his big brother, Easton.
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