
Sweet Sofia
Donation protected
Hi!
My name is Stacy. I am a friend and co-worker of Bikrum Chauhan.
The sweet girl that you see in this photo is Sofia. She is one of Bikrum's three children, and his only daughter. When Sofia was three months old, she underwent a liver transplant. She has spent many days of her childhood in Children's Hospital of Dallas. This includes many birthdays, holidays, and other special moments in her and her family's lives. She recently turned 11 years old. Like many of her birthdays, she spent this one as an inpatient at Children's Hospital. Sofia is currenty dealing with multiple symptoms that have indicated that her little body is trying to reject the donor liver that she was given as an infant. Her liver transplant team at Children's have had three unsuccessful procedures in the last six weeks while attempting to fix the issues that she is having. Sofia has been inpatient at Children's in Dallas for these three diffrent procedures over the past several weeks. During all of this, Bikrum, his wife Alfa, and their 2 sons have been staying at the Ronald Mcdonald house near the hospital. While this has helped them alleviate the stress of paying for hotels during Sofia's stays at Children's, they still have so many added exspenses so that they can be near their baby girl through these difficult and scary times. Alfa has not been working since this has all come about in the last six weeks and Bikrum has missed several of his shifts at work so he could be there with his family.
My hopes are to help lift some stress off of Alfa and Bikrum while they are going through this scary time. They are trying their best to provide as much normalcy as possible for all three of their children. Sofia has started the new school year with a drain coming from her abdomen. This has been very tough for her as she is worried about the other kids at school and what they are thinking or saying about her.
My heart breaks for all of them and I could not imagine having to go through something like this with one of my kids.
Please keep their family in your thoughts and prayers!
Organizer and beneficiary
Stacy Jaeger
Organizer
Keller, TX
Bikrum Chauhan
Beneficiary