As always, Katja is unstoppable 🤗She’s being discharged early. She was up within 2hrs of surgery walking around the unit yesterday. She’s eating great , pain is minimal and she’s in good spirits. So she gets to come home today. She is such a Warrior 💪🏻
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Welcome to Katja’s blog. A place for information, updates and our “laugh instead of cry” humor of living with a child with CHD (Congenital Heart Defects). Take a seat and prepare for a long emotional journey of our ups and downs. Feel free to browse posts about Katja, her heart and her previous surgeries. Newest updates are available below:
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Thank You
Read more: Thank YouWe are beyond grateful for all the people that reached out to us and the media to make this happen. Thank you all so so much! Kiro 7 King 5 (click to watch) https://www.king5.com/embeds/video/responsive/281-fc70c02e-2332-47b6-b696-7ba27a8c0679/iframe
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Katja Needs Your Help!
Read more: Katja Needs Your Help!The waiting is the hardest part, honestly it is. Katja got to watch her big sister Nevaeh graduate (thanks to the kindness of the Angel of the Winds arena). We were able to breeze her in a separate exit, avoid all the crowds and take her right to an isolated box suite. She was able…
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The Calm In Our Storm
Read more: The Calm In Our StormA question I get asked often is “How are you so calm about Katja?” The answer is, well, complicated. To understand why we take all of this in stride, you first have to understand Katja’s journey. We found out at 19 weeks pregnant that Katja’s heart was not “normal”. We had months to learn, prepare…
Confessions of a Mended Heart 