Zane's quilt    (Quilt Closed)

Theme details

Jungle Animals (Cute or Realistic style) - Giraffe, Lion, Monkey, Elephant should be included in the mix, but any Jungle Animals are ok. No more than one parrot please! For the label, Fish and a small Stitch would be nice

Child Interests

He loves animals especially giraffes, lions, elephants, monkeys, fish and Disney's Stitch. He likes green.

Biography

Zane always had a cough from birth, struggled with feeding and had rapid breathing, along with being sweaty all the time. He was also very jaundiced when he was born. He had his third vaccines at 4 months old and stopped feeding, which Doctors thought was just a delayed reaction to his vaccination, so discharged him from hospital.

9 days later I took him to A&E as he was still not feeding. They diagnosed him with bronchitis, but luckily one Nurse didn't agree with this diagnosis and insisted on a scan. This saved his life as he was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy after the scan showed an enlarged heart on the left side. Further scans showed there was no physical reason for this so it was most likely from a virus, but couldn't be confirmed.

Two weeks after being diagnosed Zane took a turn for the worse and was in heart failure. I was told I could lose him and he got accepted for the high priority heart treatment list. At 9 months he went on a new medication and it changed his life. He managed to get off the high priority transplant list, and is currently stable, but struggling with feeding and still requires a feeding tube.

Patterns

Squares received

Card

Stitched by: Lorraine Phelps