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Some of the members of the board know that my family is currently going through a very difficult time with my 3-year old nephew Eddie. I'm posting the information here on this forum because we may need some help.
The story is that back in late June, Eddie was taken to Long Island Jewish Center Hospital having trouble breathing. They evaluated him, and rushed him to Columbia-Presbyterian's Children's Hospital with the diagnosis of an enlarged heart. The doctor's determined that a virus attacked his heart probably 6-12 months prior and that his
condition went misdiagnosed as asthma. He was in the hospital's children's cardiac unit in June/July for 2 weeks, where they put him on a bunch of medicine, and sent him home to wait for either the drugs to do their thing or for a new heart to become available. The doctors were hoping that the medicine would start to shrink his heart back to the normal size and that a transplant wouldn't be necessary.
Unfortunately, last Thursday (9/6), he was rushed back to Columbia because his condition worsened. This past Monday he underwent 6 hours of surgery to install a breathing tube and to put him on a heart-lung bypass machine. He is currently in a medically induced coma waiting for a new heart. His status on the transplant list is now A-1, which makes him eligible for the first available heart.
Eddie has had 3 transfusions this week alone, and he has the blood type that only 6% of the population has. The doctors are anticipating that he will require more transfusions before this is over. Neither Allamuchy Joe, me, my mom or my brother have O negative, so we can't give blood to him.
We're lucky that Vicki (his mom) has a father, brother and 2 sister-in-laws that all have O negative. They were able to donate yesterday in Mineloa where the blood will be processed and sent on to Columbia for Eddie's use. Now they will not be able to donate again for a while, so we're asking for people that have O negative blood type to volunteer to donate in Eddie's name if we need more blood. In the next few days I'll be finding out how & where we can set send people to donate in NJ then have the blood processed and sent to Columbia for Eddie's use.
Please PM me or Allamuchy Joe if you have O negative and would be willing to donate.
Prayers said for this little boy's recovery would be most appreciated.
Thanks
Dawn & Joe
Some of the members of the board know that my family is currently going through a very difficult time with my 3-year old nephew Eddie. I'm posting the information here on this forum because we may need some help.
The story is that back in late June, Eddie was taken to Long Island Jewish Center Hospital having trouble breathing. They evaluated him, and rushed him to Columbia-Presbyterian's Children's Hospital with the diagnosis of an enlarged heart. The doctor's determined that a virus attacked his heart probably 6-12 months prior and that his
condition went misdiagnosed as asthma. He was in the hospital's children's cardiac unit in June/July for 2 weeks, where they put him on a bunch of medicine, and sent him home to wait for either the drugs to do their thing or for a new heart to become available. The doctors were hoping that the medicine would start to shrink his heart back to the normal size and that a transplant wouldn't be necessary.
Unfortunately, last Thursday (9/6), he was rushed back to Columbia because his condition worsened. This past Monday he underwent 6 hours of surgery to install a breathing tube and to put him on a heart-lung bypass machine. He is currently in a medically induced coma waiting for a new heart. His status on the transplant list is now A-1, which makes him eligible for the first available heart.
Eddie has had 3 transfusions this week alone, and he has the blood type that only 6% of the population has. The doctors are anticipating that he will require more transfusions before this is over. Neither Allamuchy Joe, me, my mom or my brother have O negative, so we can't give blood to him.
We're lucky that Vicki (his mom) has a father, brother and 2 sister-in-laws that all have O negative. They were able to donate yesterday in Mineloa where the blood will be processed and sent on to Columbia for Eddie's use. Now they will not be able to donate again for a while, so we're asking for people that have O negative blood type to volunteer to donate in Eddie's name if we need more blood. In the next few days I'll be finding out how & where we can set send people to donate in NJ then have the blood processed and sent to Columbia for Eddie's use.
Please PM me or Allamuchy Joe if you have O negative and would be willing to donate.
Prayers said for this little boy's recovery would be most appreciated.
Thanks
Dawn & Joe
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