Fixing broken hearts in the French Riviera

🇫🇷 Why I moved to France pt. 2

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I'm writing a mini-series to answer the enormous question of why I moved to France.

In my last piece, I dived into the struggles of keeping up with the pace of life in London. This week, being somewhat inspired by Valentine’s Day, we’re diving into a narrative centred around hearts.

I live with two heart miracles without which I wouldn’t have built up my uncertainty muscles to have made the final move out here.

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One is the cofounder of my children. He was treated for a heart malformation by a surgeon called Dr LeCompte when he was 3.5 years old, who created this manoeuvre, my husband being one of the first to trial it. It is now performed on babies as young as two weeks old.

The other is my second child, who was born with three complex heart malformations and 1 vsd (otherwise known as a hole in your heart) in 2019. I’ve been told only three surgeons in the world have the knowledge and ability to save him, and we had one. His surgery was so unique and pioneering it was written up in the European Heart Journal.

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From open heart surgery to a French visit

Looking back, I don’t remember most of what happened in my life, from the minute he got the diagnosis in June 2019 to us rushing to land on French soil before another winter lockdown in December 2021.