Help Jaycee and Eric

Hi my name is Amy. I’m a friend of Jaycee and Eric’s. As most of you know that had a beautiful baby girl named Brezee on September 8th. Shortly after she was born they took her off to the nicu because her lungs weren’t developed fully yet. After a couple of days in the nicu they informed Eric and Jaycee that they would have to move her to Omaha due to her having a heart defect called TAPVR.

Total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) is a birth defect of the heart. In a baby with TAPVR, oxygen-rich blood does not return from the lungs to the left atrium. Instead, the oxygen-rich blood returns to the right side of the heart. Here, oxygen-rich blood mixes with oxygen-poor blood. This causes the baby to get less oxygen than is needed to the body. To survive with this defect, babies with TAPVR usually have a hole between the right atrium and the left atrium (an atrial septal defect) that allows the mixed blood to get to the left side of the heart and pumped out to the rest of the body. Some children can have other heart defects along with TAPVR, aside from the atrial septal defect. Because a baby with this defect may need surgery or other procedures soon after birth, TAPVR is considered a critical congenital heart defect. Congenital means present at birth.

As most of you know she has been at Children’s hospital in Omaha ever since and she will eventually need heart surgery in the next couple of months. This is going to greatly impact when Jaycee can go back to work. And when Brezee does come home she will have to go to doctors appointments every couple of weeks. So we are asking to donate if you can and if not just share and keeping praying and sending good thoughts for the family.