Jefferson Parish Council Member Deano Bonano had just arrived home from the Irish-Italian Parade in Metairie in March when he crumpled to the floor. A jolt of back pain — the worst he’d ever experienced in his life — hit him suddenly, prompting his wife to call an ambulance.
Bonano had no idea what caused it. He had gotten a knee replacement surgery nine days earlier, his sixth one, but the surgery went fine and he was starting to recover.
The ambulance took him to Ochsner Medical Center, where his last memory from that day was an emergency room surgeon telling him that something had “gone wrong” in his abdomen…