Hearts Beat For Brayden-Heart Transplant Recipient
BRAYDEN'S STORY: In 2018 Brayden was diagnosed with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy after having a couple instances of passing out unexpectedly. HCM causes the heart muscle to thicken, making it so the heart doesn’t pump blood correctly. The following year, when his youngest child, Baylor, was only 3 weeks old, the doctors performed surgery to place an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) that is meant to shock his heart if it ever suddenly stops. We thought that would be the extent of his issues until he started having more symptoms in the Fall of 2020. He put on 20 pounds in less than a month, which we’d come to find out was water retention due to his heart going into diastolic heart failure. In March of 2021, he was hospitalized to give him diuretics through IV.
After the hospitalization, Brayden was referred to a team of heart transplant doctors that specialize in HCM. It was recommended that he start the work up to get approved to be on the heart transplant list as there are a lot of hoops to jump through and can take time. While working on getting everything in order, Brayden’s condition continued to worsen, which is expected since it is a progressive condition. After performing a right heart catheterization on July 8th it was determined that Brayden needs to be admitted to the ICU to monitor and regulate symptoms until he is able to receive a heart transplant.
Brayden has been able to and will continue to be able to work up until the time of the surgery. However, he will need to take an undetermined amount of time off after the surgery to recover and go to the needed doctor's appointments.
As his wife Desi will be the one taking Brayden to the appointments after the heart transplant, she will likely have to take FMLA leave for work. FMLA helps protect your job but unfortunately you do not get paid. This will be an extreme financial burden on the Wright family.
A GoFundMe has been established and the Wright family also has Venmo account and the QR code for donations will be provided.
We truly appreciate the love and support shown to Brayden, his wife Desi and their sweet family.
(My name is Jennise and I am Brayden's cousin. I have been asked to oversee the GoFundMe account for the Wright Family. 100% of all donations received through this GoFundMe campaign will benefit Brayden and his beautiful family.)