ACW Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 my younger daughter ws born with un-diagnosed and relatively complex congential heart defects. She celebrated has 12th birthday last week and is fit and well. Long story short is that we spent quite a lot of time in Pediatric cardiac units at Birminghams Childrens hosptial. Its a stressful and worrying time when such young children are ill at even the most normal of times. Each case is of course different - but for what its worth most of the peoiple who work in these units day in day know whats best and are incredibly empathetic - Not all of course so always question. Children are very resilient my daughter had two lots of open heart surgery as well as angioplasty. This was 10 years+ ago and even then the big risk to the patients was infection which impeeded recovery. As such we took the difficult decision of only I remaining with our daughter when in the hospital each time. This was as difficult as you can imagine - but done for entirely the right reasons of infection control, and of course I became an expert of doing a full doctors scrub, bare below the elbow etc. And like the current sitiuation only works if everyone does this. So as upsetting as it is and I know its incredibly upsetting to hand you child over and leave pre-theatre, know that its best with as few other people around as possible. WIshing you the best. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 Hi guys, further good news for little Eleanor, she was taken into the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle Thursday night, then Saturday at 1pm was taken for her surgery.. At 7pm she came out onto the ICU and good news all went well, no problems... Is still on life support and hopefully will be removed from there either today or tomorrow. She has a lot of machines hooked up which is quite daunting to see but it's so much relief to have this completed. Mum is in total lock down with her on the ward for the next 2 weeks. Thank you for all the support and well wishes for everyone from myself and my wonderful wife 👊 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff oakley Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Wishing all your family the very best. When you look at these pictures and see what the NHS dose and the equipment needed to do it, it is hard to understand why people think we can do it on the cheap and they should get less funding. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenh Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Best wishes to you and all your family, Tex. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 Holy crap... The 2 drains in the lungs are coming out today. I spotted the little teddy bear on the plaster 😇 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingster Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 The NHS at its best Terry. Great news. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Congratulations, that's fantastic news in the darkness of current times. Life does go on! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Carter (Buttercup) Posted April 4, 2020 Share Posted April 4, 2020 Great news Terry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tex Posted April 4, 2020 Author Share Posted April 4, 2020 All these people showing support is overwhelming.. I thank each and EVERYONE of you 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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