It is so hard to believe that a year ago we were sitting in the surgical waiting room as Charlotte had her second heart surgery. And then beginning our bedside blogging again.
Of course, she came through with flying colors and has, by all accounts, spent the past year become the most regular of kids. She is still my hero.
This is the perfect time to tell you about our new friend, Jessica, a 21-year old born with Truncus Arteriosus. She contacted us through the blog to let us know that like Charlotte she had had a surgery at birth (3 weeks old) and another at 3 years old. She is having her third surgery--18 years after the second one-- this summer. We are delighted to have a new, grown up friend for Charlotte; some one who can swap stories about what it means to be just a regular kid with a patched up heart. And, after all of the sad truncus stories we've read about, we're terribly emotional about having a positive example for our kiddo.
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