Baby Sadie's Open Heart Surgery

Sweet Sadie is approaching surgery time.
For those of you who don't know my friend Kristen DeRouen Talbot, she is an amazing mama to two adorable little girls, a full time Occupational Therapist, and a fellow Jesus lover. This past January she alongside, her husband Danny Talbot were blessed with their second daughter Sadie. Sadie had known heart and organ defects prior to her birth and defied all odds! Now, as 6 months of age is approaching her first surgery is scheduled to repair her heart.

Open heart surgery is scheduled September 9th at Ochsner Hospital for Children in New Orleans. They will repair her Atrioventricular canal by closing the hole between the top two chambers (ASD), close the hole between the bottom two chambers (VSD) and divide her single valve into two.  They expect Sadie to be in the hospital 7-10 days if everything goes smoothly.  Once she is healed from heart surgery they will meet again with a pediatric GI surgeon to discuss a plan for her intestinal malrotation. 


Financial impact of having a child with CHD/Heterotaxy: during pregnancy Kristen had 38 specialist appointments during her high risk pregnancy, Sadie had a NICU stay along with extra hospitalization days for a multitude of diagnostic tests/procedures. Kristen took a full 12 weeks of maternity leave which half was unpaid. Sadie requires one on one care from an in home nanny due to immune issues which is extremely expensive but medically necessary. She has had cardiology appointments monthly and now bimonthly.  They will incur the cost of her open heart surgery, hospitalization, and lost time from work to be with her. Sadie will continue to need in home care following her surgery. 

I would love to come together to help relieve some of this financial burden off of two of my best friends. It's hard enough to have a sick child. I want money to be the least of their worries during this time. 

If you would like to donate you can to this Go Fund Me page and the money will be accessabile to the Talbot family directly.
They can also except Venmo  donations: @KristenTalbot  
OR if you would like to send a personal check please private message for their address.

If you cannot donate you can still help by praying for a a great surgery outcome with a speedy recovery. Please feel free to reach out with any questions you may have. And I wanted to attach a couple of links that share a little more in depth about Sadie's condition:
Diagnosis: Heterotaxy-left atrial isomerism. Info on Heterotaxy here: 

https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/heterotaxy-syndrome-isomerism 


    ◦    Cardiac defects: balanced AV canal, interrupted inferior vena cava with azygous continuation 


Info on AV canal: 
https://www.chop.edu/conditions-diseases/atrioventricular-canal-defects 


    ◦    Other anatomical anomalies: her stomach is on the right side of her body, intestinal malrotation and her liver is midline. She has a spleen but they won’t know if it functions until she is older. Because of this she has a delicate immune system which is managed by twice daily amoxicillin until the age of 5. 

Once Sadie is repaired she should have little to no cardiac issues for a long time! Sadie has had a great start to life and is a very strong little girl. Lets keep that trend going for her!