Tag: Birmingham Children’s Hospital
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Hannah post-surgery follow-up | 3 months after heart surgery
Hannah’s heart surgery was 3 months and 1 day ago, on 12th August Today was a very good follow-up appointment! Hannah’s doing really well. The right ventricle of her heart, which had become enlarged due to the excessive back pressure from the too-tight duct and left and right pulmonary arteries coming off it, is now…
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Hannah’s recovery from heart surgery | Day 14 | Here we go again…
Two steps forward, one step back… Back in Birmingham Hannah woke up with a massive lump at the top of her sternotomy wound, similar to when she’d had surgical emphysema, which had appeared to have gone. She doesn’t have the crackles (crepitations) that usually go with surgical emphysema this time though. I measured (8cm long…
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Hannah’s post-surgery recovery | day 2
8am I just came back to intensive care after a few hours’ s sleep. Simon has updated me on his 2nd half night shift. Hannah much as she was when I left earlier this morning. Still quite tearful and very thirsty. Pain when she moves, despite the morphine clicker. Very sleepy but still woke a…
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Hannah’s Heart Surgery | The day before
Today was the day before S-day… The day before Hannah’s surgery…and it’s been a great day! 5.45am, Alarm goes off For just a split second as the alarm went off, I thought it was just a normal morning and just felt mildly irritated that it was time to get up already (the alarm had interrupted…
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Hannah’s open heart surgery 2014 | The journey begins
My baby is having open heart surgery And it doesn’t get any easier… For those of you that know me and my family, you may be familiar with our background and Hannah’s and Charlie’s amazing stories. If not, you can read a bit more about it all here. Basically, Hannah was born with Pulmonary Atresia…