- R
For over the past 7 years our beloved Kaye Cloutman has been fighting for her life.
Kaye was born with Eisenmenger Syndrome, a congenital heart defect. As a young girl, an attempt was made to see if the defect could be repaired but it was decided that would be impossible. Since then she has lived with the idea that life was fragile and short; circumstances weren’t always in our control. In the intervening years, technology and science caught up with Kaye’s heart condition and in 2007 when she was pregnant with son Johnny, the doctors at Stanford discovered that they might be able to repair her heart after all – however, they had to get her thru a complicated high-risk pregnancy first. She’s one of only a handful of women who’ve survived childbirth with this heart condition.
http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2009/08/lasting-impressions-deirdre-lyell-on-mom-risking-her-life-for-child.html
Although she has faced countless surgeries, visits to doctors, treatments, and near death encounters she has continued to touch our lives even while dealing with her own hard times. With her positivity, care, and nurturing spirits she has given life to those blessed to be around her. She has been able to raise two beautiful kids along with the help of her supportive husband John and managed to produce/edit and oversee GEV Magazine.
On December 20, 2013, Kaye had her second open-heart surgery and just at the end of July, Kaye underwent surgery to remove a large mass of scar tissue, and hopefully allow for her to at last, be free of all the pain she had been experiencing. While we all prayed for the surgery to have a positive outcome, sometimes in life we must encounter bumps in the road to at the end see the light in the tunnel. Her recovery has been progressing very slowly and funds for the treatments, follow-up visits, medical bills, and home care are becoming scarce. Just in the time I was writing this, Kaye has had to go back in the hospital again, in a great deal of pain with a failing spleen.
At moments like these friends and family need to come together for a special cause because we can NOT lose Kaye.
She has brought so much to each and every one of our lives, that the least we can do is give a donation to continue to help keep her life and strengthen her to keep fighting!
As quoted by a teaching doctor at Stanford, upon meeting Kaye in the hospital in 2007:
“Mrs. Cloutman, in my many years of teaching and training young doctors here at Stanford, I am honored and grateful to have been able finally meet an Eisenmenger patient who survived and lasted this long. You are truly a miracle.”
She truly is a miracle and not only do we want to continue to have her in our lives every day, but her children deserve to have their "mommy" every day of their lives.
Kaye was born with Eisenmenger Syndrome, a congenital heart defect. As a young girl, an attempt was made to see if the defect could be repaired but it was decided that would be impossible. Since then she has lived with the idea that life was fragile and short; circumstances weren’t always in our control. In the intervening years, technology and science caught up with Kaye’s heart condition and in 2007 when she was pregnant with son Johnny, the doctors at Stanford discovered that they might be able to repair her heart after all – however, they had to get her thru a complicated high-risk pregnancy first. She’s one of only a handful of women who’ve survived childbirth with this heart condition.
http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2009/08/lasting-impressions-deirdre-lyell-on-mom-risking-her-life-for-child.html
Although she has faced countless surgeries, visits to doctors, treatments, and near death encounters she has continued to touch our lives even while dealing with her own hard times. With her positivity, care, and nurturing spirits she has given life to those blessed to be around her. She has been able to raise two beautiful kids along with the help of her supportive husband John and managed to produce/edit and oversee GEV Magazine.
On December 20, 2013, Kaye had her second open-heart surgery and just at the end of July, Kaye underwent surgery to remove a large mass of scar tissue, and hopefully allow for her to at last, be free of all the pain she had been experiencing. While we all prayed for the surgery to have a positive outcome, sometimes in life we must encounter bumps in the road to at the end see the light in the tunnel. Her recovery has been progressing very slowly and funds for the treatments, follow-up visits, medical bills, and home care are becoming scarce. Just in the time I was writing this, Kaye has had to go back in the hospital again, in a great deal of pain with a failing spleen.
At moments like these friends and family need to come together for a special cause because we can NOT lose Kaye.
She has brought so much to each and every one of our lives, that the least we can do is give a donation to continue to help keep her life and strengthen her to keep fighting!
As quoted by a teaching doctor at Stanford, upon meeting Kaye in the hospital in 2007:
“Mrs. Cloutman, in my many years of teaching and training young doctors here at Stanford, I am honored and grateful to have been able finally meet an Eisenmenger patient who survived and lasted this long. You are truly a miracle.”
She truly is a miracle and not only do we want to continue to have her in our lives every day, but her children deserve to have their "mommy" every day of their lives.