Sawyer B Starnes
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Staff Sargent Edis Starnes and his wife Lindsey (an Army Veteran herself) are expecting their first child together in early November 2015. His name will be Sawyer Benjamin Starnes.
Staff Sargeant Starnes has served with honor since his enlistment in the military in 1999.His current posting is at Fort Eustis. He has been deployed twice to serve his country but he has yet to fight his most horrific enemy.
After some recent tests doctors informed Edis and Lindsey that young Sawyer has rare congenital heart defects known as DORV (Double Outlet Right Ventricle) and HLHS (hypoplastic left heart syndrome) DORV affects between 1% and 3% of babies born with congenital heart defects.
When a baby is still in the womb, something goes wrong during the formation of the heart and both great arteries are attached to the right ventricle. No arteries, or only a part of the aorta, are attached to the left ventricle. With HLHS the left ventricle is under developed. This results in oxygenated blood being combined with the unoxgenated blood as it is forced out of the ventricle into the body.
Childrens Hospital of Philidelpia (CHOP) will be providing Sawyer's care. They are a top rated hospital and Edis and Lindsey will be in temporary residence near the hospital soon so the doctors and surgeons can monitor the remainder of the pregnancy. Edis and Lindsey will need to stay near the hospital throughout the month of November and part of December for Sawyer's delivery and recovery after his first surgery.
Sawyer will have to undergo 2 heart surgeries in the 1st year and have seemingly endless testing. After they return to Fort Eustis Edis ,Lindsey and Sawyer will have to make many return trips to Philidelphia requiring overnight stays. The military will help with Sawyer's medical bills but not all. As with most congetital heart diesease cases many expenses are leftover that need to be addressed and there will be expected and unexpected expenses for many years to come.
We are asking for your help. Any contribution will help this young family deal with the financial stress so they can better focus their energies on healing Sawyer and healing as a family as they fight this terrible enemy congenitive heart defect together.
Learn more of Sawyer's condition. http://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/double-outlet-right-ventricle#.Vf4Ekfnw6d5
http://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/hypoplastic-left-heart-syndrome-hlhs/about#.Vf4nZvnw6d4
Staff Sargeant Starnes has served with honor since his enlistment in the military in 1999.His current posting is at Fort Eustis. He has been deployed twice to serve his country but he has yet to fight his most horrific enemy.
After some recent tests doctors informed Edis and Lindsey that young Sawyer has rare congenital heart defects known as DORV (Double Outlet Right Ventricle) and HLHS (hypoplastic left heart syndrome) DORV affects between 1% and 3% of babies born with congenital heart defects.
When a baby is still in the womb, something goes wrong during the formation of the heart and both great arteries are attached to the right ventricle. No arteries, or only a part of the aorta, are attached to the left ventricle. With HLHS the left ventricle is under developed. This results in oxygenated blood being combined with the unoxgenated blood as it is forced out of the ventricle into the body.
Childrens Hospital of Philidelpia (CHOP) will be providing Sawyer's care. They are a top rated hospital and Edis and Lindsey will be in temporary residence near the hospital soon so the doctors and surgeons can monitor the remainder of the pregnancy. Edis and Lindsey will need to stay near the hospital throughout the month of November and part of December for Sawyer's delivery and recovery after his first surgery.
Sawyer will have to undergo 2 heart surgeries in the 1st year and have seemingly endless testing. After they return to Fort Eustis Edis ,Lindsey and Sawyer will have to make many return trips to Philidelphia requiring overnight stays. The military will help with Sawyer's medical bills but not all. As with most congetital heart diesease cases many expenses are leftover that need to be addressed and there will be expected and unexpected expenses for many years to come.
We are asking for your help. Any contribution will help this young family deal with the financial stress so they can better focus their energies on healing Sawyer and healing as a family as they fight this terrible enemy congenitive heart defect together.
Learn more of Sawyer's condition. http://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/double-outlet-right-ventricle#.Vf4Ekfnw6d5
http://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/hypoplastic-left-heart-syndrome-hlhs/about#.Vf4nZvnw6d4
Organizer and beneficiary
Donna Cole
Organizer
Newport News, VA
Lindsey Starnes
Beneficiary