My name is Barbara Brown, Tre'von's mom, who, prior to June 14, 2016 was a normal kid who's life revolved around playing video games with his siblings and hanging out with his family. He had no health issues whatsoever, just a normal healthy kid. On June 14 he told me he couldn't sleep the prior night because when he lay down he couldn't breathe and he would have heart palpitations. All of my "mommy red flags" went up and I took him immediately to ER. From that day to this one, I've been broken many times over, "how could this be? Where did this come from" and most importantly, "How did I not know". How can he be this sick and we/he not know it? No signs, no symptoms at all. Today he needs a new heart. At 18yrs. old he has heart failure, he was diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy. All of his other organs were repairable except his heart. He ended up having 2 ventricular assisted devices implanted(LVAD and Impella). We are truly thankful for hospital staff at Emory St. Joseph's for saving his life. We cannot thank them enough. We are in the process of placing him on Organ Donor Transplant list, this is the final step before he can be listed.  For now the L-VAD (left ventricular assisted device) is pumping the left side of his heart and the right side is being assisted with an continuous intravenous flow of medicine called Milinone, while we complete the steps required by Transplant team. Unfortunately it is required by the transplant organ donor that the family raise a minimum of $5,000 before they will even list him as a donor, for the anti rejection medicine that he'll be required to take, for the rest of his life, after the surgery. That's not even including the additional expenses that'll be incurred.  No amount is too small. Any and everything is greatly appreciated.
                            Thank you!