Celebrating tonight.
By Fiacre Banks
@xFiacre (14798)
Ireland
June 5, 2026 10:25pm CST
Continual rain is forecast for the next while but it’s far from cold with temperatures sitting in the mid teens. Warm, wet weather makes me sluggish and restless; it makes me want to read melancholic books, or rather books that turn me melancholic.
Anyway, today is happy heart day in our house, the 25th anniversary of our daughter’s eminently successful heart surgery and the tender age of 11 weeks. So out for dinner we shall go and rejoice that we still have her.
Her surgeon was an odd kind of character, but that’s ok. He couldn’t really talk to people and was always accompanied by a nurse who was able to manage him and act as go-between when he was obliged to answer questions. Somewhere quite far along the autistic spectrum but very high functioning I do believe.
A genius he was, fiddling about inside our daughter’s chest for 7 hours and putting things right with her mangled, fast-fading heart, and here we are celebrating.
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@Ineeddentures (35267)
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6 Jun
I'm glad you are celebrating today.
Happy heart day to you all.
Enjoy the meal,
Let's hope you are not back on here and in any way let down by the cuisine
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@LindaOHio (222726)
• United States
12 Jun
You definitely had a reason to celebrate. A belated Happy Heart Day to all of you.
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Jun
Continual rain makes me feel low too. But an occasional rain shower is a nice break from all this heat. We are supposed to get rain on Monday.
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@garymarsh6 (24047)
• United Kingdom
7 Jun
What a fantastic way to celebrate 25 years of life for your daughter. No wonder you were excited about the meal.
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@JudyEv (382466)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Jun
It's wonderful what some of these autistic people can do. They just need an empathetic person to help them sometimes. Or should that be sympathetic. 
@xFiacre (14798)
• Ireland
6 Jun
@JudyEv Patient? I have a lot of experience with autistic people. The social housing area where I worked before retirement had an inordinately high percentage of residents who were living with it. Once you figure out people’s idiosyncrasies it’s fine - just like the rest of the population.
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