Open Heart Surgery

They didn't really do the band tight enough. I was still getting really breathless and started showing signs of heart failure. They decided to go ahead and operate . They needed to close 2 holes, one large one in the atrium and one in the ventricles. They also had to take the band off the pulmonary artery. Mommy and daddy were confident it would be ok, there's a 99% success rate for the kind of operation I was having. I was in theatre for 5 hours, I did so well, a machine called a bypass kept the blood pumping around my body while they closed my holes. My grandpa gunter had a bypass once.

Luckily I didn't get an infection and was moved to Ladybird ward quite soon. Mommy and daddy took me for walks in a nearby park, they pushed me in a hospital pram, it reminded me of Mary Poppins... it had huge wheels and was so big i could've taken a friend along! I loved staring at the leaves in the trees, it was so nice to get some fresh air. We celebrated new year's eve in the ladybird ward, mommy and daddy had champagne and smoked salmon next to my bed, the nurse caught them but she didn't tell anyone. I went home after 8 days in hospital, I still had to take the diuretics.. just incase. My scar looks much bigger now, they cut over the first scar, but i don't mind because I'll be able to brag about it to my friends when I'm older.

Here are some pictures explaining what an asd and vsd are.