Tag: recovery from heart surgery
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Hannah’s recovery from heart surgery | Day 10
Another great day on Hannah’s heart surgery journey Hannah had a good night after a great day that ended with us snuggling up in her bed watching “Educating Yorkshire: One Year On“. She started getting restless around 5.30 this morning…toilet, water, bed up, bed down, tossing and turning, needing her eye mask to be in…
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Hannah’s recovery from heart surgery | Day 7 | PLUS an update on Charlie
One week after heart surgery Hannah is doing great…and we have further news/clarification about Charlie 7.50am This time last week, we were waiting for Hannah to be given pre-meds and taken into theatre. We were watching “Back to the Future II” to pass the time and keep our minds off it all. We were all…
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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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Hannah’s recovery from heart surgery | The first 24 hours
A child’s recovery from heart surgery can be extremely rapid or excruciatingly slow. Hannah’s first open heart surgery in 2000 resulted in her spending 2 weeks in intensive care, struggling to breathe, being extubated and re-intubated more times than I dare to remember and contracting all manner of nasty infections. This was follwed by 2…