Tag: charlie
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Never a dull moment | Resilience
Hannah ended up back in hospital This time with pneumonia Our children certainly have a flair for the dramatic!! After being called to pick Hannah up from school (“she’s thrown up a couple of times”) just before 11am last Friday and finding her in the school medical room on a wheelchair, wheezing, pale, having scratched herself to…
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Hannah’s recovery from heart surgery | Day 17
Cautiously optimistic again After we’d watched ‘Scandal’ last night, Charlie and I chatted lots more, watched a bit more TV and did lots of giggling. It felt like a schoolgirl sleepover! Even after we’d turned off the lights and I couldn’t keep my eyes open, we were still chatting for ages. We both had a…
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Hannah’s recovery from heart surgery | Day 3
Steady progress 4 am Woke up to Hannah sitting up in bed (supported by her lovely nurse, Kate) , having a big cough and struggling to shift the ‘frog in her throat’. She had vomited a little but was fine – had a good drink. Was much stronger getting herself into sitting up position and…
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Feeling blessed and grateful
gratitude grati|tude Pronunciation: /ˈgratɪtjuːd noun [mass noun] the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness: she expressed her gratitude to the committee for their support Origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from medieval Latin gratitudo, from Latin gratus ‘pleasing, thankful’. (definitions above taken from Oxford English Dictionary…