Prior to May 2018 I knew very little about congenital heart conditions, and had never heard of the condition Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA), a condition in which the two main blood vessels leaving the heart are switched over. Then all that changed as I sat and listened to a cardiologist tell my husband and I that our unborn daughter had TGA and would require open heart surgery within a few days of her birth. We were told that the surgery would happen in a children’s hospital in Dublin (over 100 miles from where we live) and in order to be as close as possible to that hospital I would also have to give birth in a hospital in Dublin.
About me
Elle Wright is a wife, mother, author and blogger. After the death of her son, Teddy, at three days old, Elle started writing to navigate her new life and as a way to feel purpose again. Her Feathering The Empty Nest blog is a way of finding light in darkness, positivity in times of desperation and, hopefully, making a few people laugh along the way.
