{"id":9177,"date":"2022-04-07T13:20:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T03:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/?p=5773"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:54:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T22:54:25","slug":"lifelong-heart-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/extranet\/newsletters\/tpch-newsletter\/lifelong-heart-bonds","title":{"rendered":"Lifelong heart bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><div id=\"attachment_5776\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5776\" class=\"size-fusion-200 wp-image-5776 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/04\/zoe-gardiner-b1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe Gardiner aged 4\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Homayoun Jalali with Zoe, aged 4<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nineteen year old Zoe Gardiner was born with a complex congenital heart problem that affected three out of four of her heart valves, as well as having a number of holes in her heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At seven months old, the Gold Coast teen underwent her first major open heart surgery at TPCH with cardiac surgeon Dr Homayoun Jalali leading the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents were told that if I didn\u2019t get the surgery I wouldn\u2019t see five years old. Every single surgery I\u2019ve had has been life-saving,\u201d Zoe said.<\/p>\n<p>Now, nearly two decades later, things have come full circle, and Zoe is recovering from her fifth major open heart operation, treated once again by Dr Jalali for the first time since she was four years old.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jalali said it was a unique case to have the teenager back in his operating room fifteen years later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that I\u2019m happy that Zoe has to come back to me, but it\u2019s quite overwhelming to take over her care again. I\u2019ve seen her as a baby, I\u2019ve seen her as a little child and now I\u2019m seeing her as a young adult,\u201d Dr Jalali said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5777\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5777\" class=\"size-fusion-200 wp-image-5777 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/staff-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/04\/zoe-gardiner-today-b2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zoe Gardiner today\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Homayoun Jalali with Zoe, aged 19<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI just want to do everything I can to get them back to normal life. It breaks my heart to see a 19-year-old back in hospital. That\u2019s not where they should be, they should be out enjoying life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite his years of experience, Dr Jalali said every surgery held the same amount of pressure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking at a young lady who\u2019s got her whole life ahead of her, but every second of the operation, I knew that something could happen where her life could just fade away in my hands,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The surgery was a success, and after 38 days in hospital, Zoe was finally discharged last month. But her recovery is only just starting and with the enduring support of her mum Jane and dad Steve, Zoe is can finally return to a normal life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust being able to feel good again and notice that my heart\u2019s good again. It\u2019s going to take a couple of months to notice that my heart is working well again,\u201d Zoe said.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nineteen year old Zoe Gardiner was born with a complex congenital heart problem that affected three out of four of her heart valves, as well as having a number of holes in her heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":10637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tpch-newsletter"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lifelong heart bonds - Staff Extranet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lifelong heart bonds - 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