{"id":1416,"date":"2014-09-08T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happiness-speaker.co.uk\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2014-09-08T18:44:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T18:44:00","slug":"heart-surgery-day-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"Hannah&#8217;s recovery from heart surgery | Day 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Returning to normality<\/h3>\n<h4>26 days after heart surgery<\/h4>\n<p>I am so grateful today; life has returned to almost normal.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah went back to school today and she had a good day.\u00a0 I wondered whether I&#8217;d get a call from school to pick her up at lunchtime, but she managed and she was still smiling when she got home.\u00a0 She looks tired and she found getting up this morning really difficult, especially after taking hours to go to sleep every night and then waking up in the early hours of this morning needing Paracetamol and taking another couple of hours to get back to sleep.\u00a0 But, that said, she&#8217;s fine.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, she had her post-op follow-up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/FrederikaRoberts-BCH2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham Children&#8217;s Hospital<\/a> (please consider donating to the hospital&#8217;s charitable fund by clicking on the link).\u00a0\u00a0 The follow-up went very well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her lungs sounded clear, so although she&#8217;s still coughing a bit, the pneumonia is gone or almost.<\/li>\n<li>Her heart scan was great, everything as it should be and looking good.<\/li>\n<li>She&#8217;s off the post-op diuretics.<\/li>\n<li>No concerns about the Seroma lump(s). They&#8217;ll eventually re-absorb.<\/li>\n<li>The scar is looking great and healing well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hannah still needs time to get her stamina back, she needs to be very careful about carrying heavy weights and can&#8217;t do PE for a couple of months.\u00a0 The scar will take 1-2 years to be fully mature and look it&#8217;s best, but we&#8217;ll help it along with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollandandbarrett.com\/shop\/personal-care\/vitamin-e-oil\/#totalNumRecs=5&amp;rpp=15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Vitamin E oil<\/a> as we&#8217;ve done before and it already looks pretty good!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Charlie started 6th Form last Wednesday and is loving it!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1419\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.happiness-speaker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Charlie-Reception-Class-and-6th-Form-comparison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1419\" src=\"http:\/\/www.happiness-speaker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Charlie-Reception-Class-and-6th-Form-comparison.jpg\" alt=\"Heart surgery | Results | Charlie Reception and 6th Form\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LEFT: Charlie in November 2002, starting Reception late after a prolonged hospital stay after her open heart surgery. RIGHT: Charlie last week before setting off at 6.30am for her commute to 6th Form for the first time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She&#8217;s doing well with her long commute and likes all her new teachers.\u00a0 Today, she was on an outdoor activity team-building day and on Friday, she is going to London to visit the Houses of Parliament and see No. 10 Downing Street with her Government and Politics class.\u00a0 Exciting stuff!<\/p>\n<p>So, there is life after heart surgery and hospital.\u00a0 We seem to have come out of the hospital bubble and life is returning to normal for us.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m very happy about that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Returning to normality 26 days after heart surgery I am so grateful today; life has returned to almost normal. Hannah went back to school today and she had a good day.\u00a0 I wondered whether I&#8217;d get a call from school to pick her up at lunchtime, but she managed and she was still smiling when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,39,102],"tags":[40,103,218,219,220],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-gratitude","category-hannahs-surgery-2014","tag-gratitude-2","tag-heart-surgery","tag-normal-life","tag-return-to-normality","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}