Fighter Friday

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Fighter Friday - Ellie Jo

My little fighter was diagnosed at our 20 week anatomy scan. We were grateful for the time to prepare, as she came a month early. She was born with small left sided structures, and an ASD and VSD.

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Fighter Friday - Michael

Michael was born April 14, 1976. During delivery his heart rate fluctuated so they placed a probe on him to record heart. After delivery his heart rate was fine but we noticed he slept and sweated a lot. At his three month check up his pediatrician heard a heart murmur and immediately ordered test.

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Fighter Friday - Harper

Harper Hope Sheckler was born on July 8th, 2022 at Children's Hospital Colorado. We found out about her special heart during our 20 week anatomy scan when we were told "there's something wrong with her heart".

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Fighter Friday - Gannon

Gannon was prenatally diagnosed with dTGA and a very large VSD (single ventricle). He was born at 36 weeks and 5 days. At 10 days old he had a PA band. One week later he developed Stage 4 NEC and had emergency bedside surgery where most of his right colon and large intestine was removed and an ileostomy placed.

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Fighter Friday - Autumn

Autumn Grace Stauffer was born on April 28.2021 at CHCO. We found out about her special heart at 27 weeks. At 36 weeks our family (our son was 2) moved to Denver in anticipation of her arrival. When she was born they did an echo to confirm her diagnosis

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Fighter Friday - Maverick

Maverick is truly our miracle baby. We tried and tried for over four years and went through three rounds of IVF for him. We were ecstatic and nervous, at the same time, when we found out that the final round of IVF actually worked. Then our worlds turned upside down during my 35 week ultrasound appointment when we learned about Maverick's Congenital Heart Defect. We worked so hard to get to this point, how could this be happening?

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Fighter Friday - Jameson

When Jameson was born we were unaware he had a heart condition. They knew as soon as he was born though, that something was not quite right. He and his dad were Life Flighted from Dillon to Missoula when he was just hours old.

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Fighter Friday - Hunter

Hunter is a one year old baby boy that was diagnosed with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. He has had a series of events through his little life.

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Fighter Friday - Camden

This is Camden! He was born 1/2019 and his diagnosis is DORV, TAPVR, AVSD and heterotaxy with no spleen. He spent his first 241 days at MUSC in the PCICU.

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Fighter Friday - Addi

Addi was born on August 2nd, 2020 (healthy pregnancy)— at her 2 week appt. her pediatrician could hear a murmur and referred us to pediatric cardiology just to be safe, and one week later she had heart surgery at the Denver Children’s Hospital.

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Fighter Friday - Lauren

Hi! My name is Lauren. I’m 36 years old and was born with CHDs called: Tricuspid Atresia, Hypoplastic Right Ventricle, Large VSD and multiple muscular ASD or simply put I have half a functioning heart.

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Fighter Friday - Parker

Parker was born in November of 2021 with his twin sister. Parker was diagnosed in utero at 22 weeks with a congenital heart defect called hypoplastic left heart syndrome(HLHS).

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