Me and My C H D

My name is Catherine d’Alquen was Coates I was born on 24^th February 1984. It wasn’t until my mum carol Coates took me to see the G.P for my 6 week check up that he found something not quite right with me. A few days later my G.P at the time Dr. Garnet of Filey surgery referred me

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My name is ken, this is my story so far, i'm a married man with 4 kids, kayleigh 12 who has nothing wrong with her, Amber 11 who has a.v.s.d, she had her surgery in john hopkins hospital usa in 2001, her surgery was not a success and she is waiting on more surgery, chelsea is 9, she has a.v.s.d, she had her surgery in 2003 in our lady's hospital in crumlin Dublin. her surgery was a success, through a fluke of coincidences my wife margaret (maggs) was diagnosed in 2006 with a.v.s.d and had her su… Continue

Hi,
I'm mum to Cordelia, who was born 27 Feb 2006 with TGA. She underwent successful "simple switch" surgery in the Royal Brompton Hospital at 10 days old. She's an only child. I'd like to get in touch with any other mums or GUCH with TGA, but I'm happy to chat with anyone here!

The last weekend I spent getting info on good books that are relevant to parents and children in relation to Congenital Heart Defects. Some of the books were suggested to me but all are good in one way or another.

Please take a look as one or two of the books maybe a great help to you.

Books Related to Congenital Heart Defects

Hazel
CHD-UK

CHD-NI visited Morocco in July 2009.

There was a meeting in Hospital Ibn Sina in Rabat, with the paediatric cardiologist Dr. Bemnani.The outcome of this meeting was that the Healthcare system is very poor and not sufficient for the demand.

In general the health care system includes 122 hospitals, 2,400 health centers, and 4 university clinics, but they are badly maintained and lack adequate capacity to meet the demand for medical care. Only 24,000 beds are available for 6 million patients seek… Continue