Ceirra needs our help for heart surgery.

How to begin?  Where to begin?  As some may know:

My daughter, Ceirra, at the age of 14 suffered a heart attack.  This was 7 years
ago.   Ceirra was a healthy child before
this.  Seriously the night before she was
off to winter formal.

Ceirra’s life forever changed the next
morning.  She spent days in ICU, doctors were baffled.  They were thinking
anxiety, virus of heart, and many other
things.  They never initially even considered a heart attack.   Kids that are healthy don’t normally have heart attacks.  Even more baffling was Ceirra just woke up
Jan 19, 2014 presenting with symptoms.  She wasn’t in the middle of high activity when her symptoms started.  She spent a long time experiencing her heart attack, over 24 hours

Doctors finally decided to do a cardiac
cath trying to figure out what was going on with her.

The faces of three doctors when they
came to talk to Phil and I... are burned in my memory.  It wasn’t a look of sorrow.  It was a mixture of shock, disbelief and
excitement.  Shock because they never
saw this.  Disbelief because no where in
their medical teachings ever had this
type of case. They honestly couldn’t
believe what they were seeing. 
Excitement because at least now they
know what’s going on with my daughter.  During Ceirra’s cath, they discovered she had a blood clot in her coronary artery.  A hole that normally closes as you get
older.  A hole that wouldn’t even affect
your health as an adult. This hole was the gateway for the blood clot. The doctors
fixed her hole and put on blood thinners.

She recovered well, even with heart
damage.  She took on the life of an adult.  Ceirra’s renaming teenage years were
riddled with tests, appointments,
needles, medication.  She finally reached yearly appointments with cardiologist. 
Light at end of tunnel she can relax. 
However, just a few months ago that
very mild mitral valve leak she had (part of heart attack damage) decided to turn
severe.  Typically a doctor would just go
in and repair.  Ceirra’s case is different.
No dr had seen a patient as young as
Ceirra for cardiac appointments
(especially now that she sees an adult
cardiologist).  She also has a mesh repair currently in her heart.  Ceirra has been
back to square one with tests and
appointments.  But in that mess she’s
recently married.  She’s not letting this
issue stop her from living.  She always
smiling and giving.  Ceirra pushes thru
her days working and college full time. 
The leaking valve has caused her a lot of symptoms and with it she’s still pushing
through her days.

Ceirra’s got mounting medical bills.  As a newlywed, Ceirra is facing many medical bills.  She’s been able to stay on top of
them. I worry though, with a cardiac cath this week and  several dr appointments
and labs before the big surgery of valve
replacement.  Ceirra will continue seeing a lot of bills.  Ceirra is going to need help.  She won’t ask for it.  Ceirra worries this medical issue she continues to deal with since 14 , will be an immense strain on
her college student-newlywed financials.  I know she feels guilty bringing medical
bills into her marriage.  However now
those bills will be greater than she’s ever seen.  If you could spare a dollar to help my daughter I will forever be grateful.
 She’s 21 dealing with a 60+ year olds medical issues.  Thank you.