{"id":4884,"date":"2010-11-30T13:47:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4884"},"modified":"2010-12-02T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T14:44:46","slug":"4884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4884","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was just reminded, once again, how very precious life is.\u00a0 A friend of mine, a fellow blogger, and adult CHDer passed away today.\u00a0 I have linked to his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/tricuspid.wordpress.com\/\">Adventures of a Funky Heart<\/a>, on numerous occasions and over the past couple of years have really gotten to know Steve through emails.\u00a0 He became a fan of Mary Clare&#8217;s and was a great source of comfort, support and knowledge for me.\u00a0 Just four days ago, he passionately <a href=\"http:\/\/tricuspid.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/26\/a-cure-for-heart-defects-2\/\">blogged <\/a>a challenge to eradicate CHD by November 29, 2024, the 80th anniversary of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt.\u00a0 He was an amazing writer and an amazing person.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steve was born with Tricuspid Artresia, which is similar to HLHS. \u00a0 He had the  BT shunt when he was very young, and an early  version of the Fontan, which left him with a single ventricle anatomy like Mary Clare.\u00a0 Although he had a pacemaker and survived numerous health difficulties over his life he was considered an &#8220;oldie&#8221; complex CHD survivor at age 44.\u00a0\u00a0 His wit, his passion for CHD awareness and research and his courage will be terribly missed, especially by heart moms and dads who looked to him daily for inspiration and hope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Life is precious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just reminded, once again, how very precious life is.\u00a0 A friend of mine, a fellow blogger, and adult CHDer passed away today.\u00a0 I have linked to his blog, Adventures of a Funky Heart, on numerous occasions and over the past couple of years have really gotten to know Steve through emails.\u00a0 He became [&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-4884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4886,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions\/4886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}