Help Save Suzu Fund
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I am Vang Moua and my wife is Takeko Yoshioka-Moua. We are helping to raise money for Suzu Kaneda. Suzu is one year old girl and desperately needs a lung transplant to save her life. She has Pulmonary Vein Stenosis (PVS) and Pulmonary Hypertension. Suzu has already lost her twin sister Saya to this incurable condition when they were just 11 months old. She lives in Osaka, Japan and has been accepted at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital in to their lung transplant program. We need to raise $2,695,000 to pay for the hospital fees, transportation and accomodations for the Kaneda family in Cincinnati. They need the funds as soon as possible so they can make the trip to Cincinnati. Suzu grows weaker by the day. Her doctors inform us she needs to travel by August or she won't be strong enough to make the journey.
We contacted the Kanedas and felt compelled to help because our own daughter was hospitalized when she was just 3 months old. Her viens were so small that the nurses needed multiple punctures just to get blood samples. But the worst was that she needed a spinal puncture. There's nothing worse than not being able to help your child when they're in pain crying for you. We can't even imagine what the Kaneda's have been through. We just had to support them after our own experience.
Words will never be enough to express our gratitude to those who help the Kanedas. But thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
The Kaneda's are also fundraising in Japan, we won't have any visibility on their site, but they do update us everyday. Here is Suzu's page in Japan. Click on English on the top menu to see the English pages. They are also accepting donations on their page as well. We will be updating our totals with their totals and vice versa. http://suzukachan.com/en
Suzu's English Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/savesuzufund/
This video is Suzu's story.
From Children'shospital.org - Pulmonary vein stenosis is a rare and serious condition in which there is an obstruction (blockage) in the blood vessels that bring oxygen-rich blood from the lungs back to the heart. It can be isolated to a single pulmonary vein, but most often occurs in multiple veins simultaneously.
We contacted the Kanedas and felt compelled to help because our own daughter was hospitalized when she was just 3 months old. Her viens were so small that the nurses needed multiple punctures just to get blood samples. But the worst was that she needed a spinal puncture. There's nothing worse than not being able to help your child when they're in pain crying for you. We can't even imagine what the Kaneda's have been through. We just had to support them after our own experience.
Words will never be enough to express our gratitude to those who help the Kanedas. But thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
The Kaneda's are also fundraising in Japan, we won't have any visibility on their site, but they do update us everyday. Here is Suzu's page in Japan. Click on English on the top menu to see the English pages. They are also accepting donations on their page as well. We will be updating our totals with their totals and vice versa. http://suzukachan.com/en
Suzu's English Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/savesuzufund/
This video is Suzu's story.
From Children'shospital.org - Pulmonary vein stenosis is a rare and serious condition in which there is an obstruction (blockage) in the blood vessels that bring oxygen-rich blood from the lungs back to the heart. It can be isolated to a single pulmonary vein, but most often occurs in multiple veins simultaneously.
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Vang Moua
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Fountain Valley, CA
