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Dear Me Blog Series: Tiffany Corey (CHD Adult)
Dear Younger me, I have so many things I’d like to tell you and I honestly don’t know where to start. You were born with a congenital heart defect. That much you know. Heart problems, I am sorry to say, will continue to always be a part of your life. Medications, doctors’ offices, all of […]
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Dear Me Blog Series: Jen Huegel
Dear Me, I can still see you. Curled into a ball, swallowed by darkness in your living room on a perfectly sunny and beautiful fall day. Shades drawn, heart broken, unable to form words. I can still feel the fear, ripping through your whole body as you shook with sobs that filled the quiet room. […]
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Dear Me Blog Series: February CHD Awareness Month Campaign
Help-A-Heart is excited to feature the letters of several of our ‘heart’ parents during our February CHD (congenital heart disease) Awareness Month campaign. We asked our families to write a letter to themselves during the time they received the diagnosis and first began their journey in the heart world. Just a warning, these are […]
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30 Days of Thanks ~ Bereavement Team
During the month of November, Help-A-Heart put the spotlight on various ways people support and donate to our organization throughout the year. Obviously, attending one of our annual fundraisers–the Celebration of Life Dinner & Silent Auction in June & the Superhero Heart Run in October–are two big ways you can further our cause! We also […]
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January Heart Hero – Gabe Graber
We found out on September 11, 2004, that our unborn child had a congenital heart defect called Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome. Basically, this means that Gabe’s right ventricle never fully developed, so he only has 1 pumping chamber in his heart. This defect is corrected with a series of 3 open heart surgeries—one at birth, […]
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Happy 2018!
Happy 2018 from Help-A-Heart! A few of our heart heroes, Carver, Kiran, Kellan & Addison would like to wish you a happy new year! We are so blessed by a wonderful 2017 & can’t wait to see what the new year brings! To our amazing & steadfast supporters who make it possible to do what we […]
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March Heart Hero – Leilani Lahey
Leilani was born a healthy 6 lb little girl. Little did we know that 5 months later, our lives would be turned upside down. Leilani started getting sick, and after a long week and a few doctor’s appointments, with her only getting worse, we took her to the ER. They did a chest x-ray and […]
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