Tag: Heart Defect
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Home Sweet Home
Read more: Home Sweet HomeIt’s official! We are finally heading home after 10w2d, that’s 2.5 months of being on the East Coast 😱 We are beyond grateful for all the love and support. Katja received a special private flight home 🚀 We’ll see you tomorrow afternoon Seattle with the PNW and Childrens National’s 1st Domino Partial Heart Transplant kid!…
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Survival Mode
Read more: Survival ModeWe have been surviving these last few months. No thriving, no coasting, no getting by… surviving. We barely eat, we definitely haven’t been sleeping and we’ve let our own health go. My clothes are loose, my hair is shedding and I’m taking Motrin daily for pain. I’m surviving to give 110% of me to my…
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She’S Back
Read more: She’S BackBack to HKU (Step Down). Let’s hope round 2 is uneventful so we can leave soon!
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Realities
Read more: RealitiesI’ve been getting a lot of messages asking how Katja is doing, what went wrong and general curiosity. We appreciate everyone’s concerns for her. I wish we had answers. I’ve waited days to post this because there isn’t much to answer. This is the reality of doing something only 40ish kids in the world have…
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Headaches & Steroids
Read more: Headaches & SteroidsThat is all that is keeping us here. Headaches and steroids. Katja is doing amazing from a heart standpoint. Her function looks great and she has so much energy. She’s been walking around the hospital for the last 4 days, enjoying the sights, the gardens and meeting new heart friends. Her appetite is returning to…
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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…
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The Wait Begins
Read more: The Wait BeginsThere was a bit of a delay this morning as another heart warrior received a full heart transplant. Katja is now back and prep for surgery has begun. Now we wait …. ❤️❤️❤️
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We Got a Heart!
Read more: We Got a Heart!The Heart is Good!! ❤️🧡💛💚🩵💜 Katja will be heading back for her Partial Heart Transplant in 30 mins. Please pray for her. It will be a really long day. I will update here, her GFM and her blog as I get updates from the OR. They will be limited and pretty spaced out. Surgery will…
Confessions of a Mended Heart 