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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A Partial Gift With Significant Risks-PHT
Read more: A Partial Gift With Significant Risks-PHTThat big “T” word that makes everyone’s heart flutter just a bit. It’s scary, it’s unknown but when it’s spoken out loud, you just know, something is wrong. Transplant. There I said it. Did your heart skip a beat? Mine does, every time and I’ve been saying it a lot lately. So let’s talk about…
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Save Katja’s Heart: Urgent Flight for a Rare Transplant
Read more: Save Katja’s Heart: Urgent Flight for a Rare TransplantHelp Katja! Spread the word! https://gofund.me/33c1e6e5
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Can you Cure a broken heart?
Read more: Can you Cure a broken heart?I don’t know but I’m willing to find out……. Katja was doing great. She had made the transition from wheelchair to walker and was slowly building her endurance back up. Her Chorea was still progressing but at a slower rate. We decided to have a talk with her Neurology team at Boston and finally caved…
Confessions of a Mended Heart 