The Proud Grandma!

Nothing prepares you for the experience of a children's intensive care unit. After her operation Kaitlyn was paralized for 3 days as her chest was left open to allow the swelling on her heart to reduce. It was after they had closed her up that they spotted the blood clot. That night she became very unwell and we thought we had lost her- she pulled through and kept on fighting. She also had a partially collapsed lung due to all the fluid retention she had built up. The picture above is of Kaitlyn a few days before she came off the ventilator and back to the ward. We could not bring ourselves to take photos of her before then although we know a lot of people do but we didnt want to remember those days when she was so ill.