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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Can’t Keep Her Down
Read more: Can’t Keep Her DownIn usual Katja style, she isn’t going to let a bad afternoon keep her down. By late this afternoon she was feeling so much better, she asked to go see the Gardens. ❤️
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The Curse Of Day 3
Read more: The Curse Of Day 3If you’ve followed Katja’s journey in the past, you’ll remember the curse of Day 3. If not you can read about it in her blog updates under “Giving up is not an option”. For some reason after every ohs on Day 3 we hit a pain wall and have a set back. I try so…
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Goal Smasher
Read more: Goal SmasherKatja didn’t spend yesterday progressing… She spent it leaping past her goals 😳 Within 2hrs of her mask being reduced to nasal cannula, Katja got up. OT came in to see how she was doing and she decided she’d had enough laying flat watching Moana 2. She made the 6 steps over to a chair…
Confessions of a Mended Heart 