While Benjamin sustained no physical injuries in the attack, Kasper was transported to a local hospital, where she underwent an emergency C-section.
While they were performing the C-section, doctors also repaired Kasper's colon and liver, which she said were both damaged in the attack. "That was devastating," she said."I was thinking, 'This is it. This is the life of the NICU. How am I ever going to fall asleep waiting for these phone calls?'"Kasper and her partner, Steven Barkdoll, both teachers, spent the next several months traveling back and forth between the NICU and their home, where they stayed with Benjamin.Valerie Kasper and her partner Steve stand beside the incubator holding their youngest son, Theodore.
Though the family is now home under one roof for the first time in months, the recovery continues for both Theodore and Kasper, who still has limited mobility and pain from her wounds.Valerie Kasper holds her son Theodore in the NICU at Children's Hospital of Atlanta at Egleston. "We're just monitoring him as he grows and supporting him the best we can to try to get him off all the machines and let him be a big boy," she said of Theodore, who now weighs 11 pounds.Valerie Kasper poses with her partner Steven and their two children on the day their youngest son, Theodore, went home from the NICU.
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