{"id":87,"date":"2019-02-15T16:25:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2019-02-15T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T16:25:59","slug":"heart-month-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Heart Month: Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/heartmonth?epa=HASHTAG\">#HeartMonth<\/a>\u00a0day 3! The hardest thing I have ever had to do is give my daughter to a person I have barely met and put her life in their hands and the hands of the entire surgical team. I\u2019ve done this twice and I still have no idea how I did it. I will have to do it again- possibly many more times, and I struggle to believe I would be able to do it again- but I will. I will find the strength somewhere because it is what needs to happen. There is no cure or preventative measures for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/congenitalheartdefects?epa=HASHTAG\">#CongenitalHeartDefects<\/a>, there is only interventions after the fact that can improve the function of heart. Below is Ellie after her second surgery, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/kawashima?epa=HASHTAG\">#Kawashima<\/a>\u00a0in 2015. Also pictured, Pru- her stuffed dog that has seen her through all her surgeries.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/stuffedanimalsurgerybuddy?epa=HASHTAG\">#StuffedAnimalSurgeryBuddy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/chdaware?epa=HASHTAG\">#CHDAware<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/paband?epa=HASHTAG\">#PABand<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/fontan?epa=HASHTAG\">#Fontan<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/51198175_10101251444489014_2787792812895109120_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&amp;oh=b1858ebe778b73ef262455c1074c9125&amp;oe=5CF6A42B\" alt=\"Image may contain: one or more people and people sleeping\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#HeartMonth\u00a0day 3! The hardest thing I have ever had to do is give my daughter to a person I have barely met and put her life in their hands and the hands of the entire surgical team. I\u2019ve done this twice and I still have no idea how I did it. I will have to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellieheartwarrior.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}