Check-up

This week Little S went back to GOSH for a check-up.

She was fine - in fact the doctor (who hadn't seen her before) said that if he hadn't know about her condition he would never have guessed - she's doing really well.

 

However, just the fact that we needed to go for a check-up brought a lot of anxiety back again -  Little S is so outwardly healthy, it is so easy to put any issues right to the back of your mind for quite a while - which is great, until those issues surface again.

 

And then after the check-up we tell everyone that Little S is doing well - but that doesn't mean that she's 'recovering' or 'out of the woods', it just means that the previous operation was successful and that Little S has had no bad reactions.

 

I say 'just' when I actually mean that Little S is a bloody miracle and the doctors and surgeons are amazing!

But I also say 'just' as these current check-ups are steps on the way to a further major operation at some point in the next year or so and that continues to hang-over us like a bad cloud.

GOSH on the BBC

The BBC have been showing a series about GOSH over the last few weeks.

 

In each episode they take a look at various parts of the hospital and the amazing things that they do - this week it was time to examine how the hospital manage congenital heart defects and how they try to help the babies that are born with terrible things wrong with their hearts and arteries.

 

Of course, Little S has a congenital heart defect so this should be a really interesting programme from our point of view.

 

But GOSH on the BBC isn't all good news and amazing success on the operating table – and I don’t want to watch babies dying whilst surgeons desperately try but fail to fix their hearts.