Help Theo have a better chance ❤️

Hi my name is Elena sweeney. This is my story, I am a 31 year old women that is in need of support, I have tried so many other options to get support but as of yet no one has helped. I will start by breaking down my story to give you all the facts,

First of all I was residing in Albania up until the 2nd of November this year, while there me and my husband had been trying for our second child, we found out in May that we were expecting and we were over the moon with joy.

Everything was going well and we were so excited, I also have a young son lukas who is turning 6 who suffers from ADHD and autism and when we told him he was having a baby sister or brother he was delighted.

We went for your 4 months scan and found out we were having another beautiful boy, and we were so pleased, everything was going well.

It came to the time and we went for our 20 week scan I couldn't wait to see my baby and hear his little heart beat. While there the doctor noticed that something was off with his heart and he told us we would need to have an emergency ecocardiogram, so he sent us to another city to a specialist doctor. I was so nervous not knowing what it could be, but while in there they told us that the left side of our sons heart was not working. He told us there was a 10% chance of life and my heart and my husbands heart broke instantly. He told us that the best option was to terminate the pregnancy as it would end any suffering for the baby.

We drove home in tears and we were so unsure of what was best to do. So I contacted my family in Ireland and had days of crying an melt downs. We decided to return to Ireland as the hospital are much more advanced and could maybe offer another option.

We applied for my husband to get an emergency visa and we decided that it would be best for mw to travel beforehand with lukas to Ireland and start the process. My mother and sister had arranged a house for me and soon we began our journey to the hospitals to see what was really going on.

First I went to letterkenny General hospital and registered and they decided it was best to go to holle Street in dublin to get a diagnosis scan done. So off I went to Dublin, and let me just say the staff and doctors there were absolutely amazing. I went in frightened and I was so nervous but I had also built myself up thinking the doctors in Albania could have been wrong. That just came as a bigger blow when I realised it was actually worse than what they had told me, as he was now a few weeks further it was more clear for them to tell what was wrong.

So me and my mother sat down with a room full of doctors amongst them was the main heart surgeon.

He turned to me and told me that this was an extremely bad diagnosis and I should not hope for much. I immediately broke down.

The diagnosis was.

CRITICAL AORTIC STENOSIS WITH SEVERE EFE AND SEVERE LV DYSFUNCTION, with a few other small issues,

What this means is that his whole left side of his heart is unable to function, it had built up a wall of muscle that would not allow the heart to pump and that it had hardened so much that it was not moving at all. He also has severe narrowing of the aortic valve and there is no blood passing tru at all.

My heart sunk and I just could not believe that this was happening to my baby boy.

So the doctor informed me that when I have the section to have my son in the first week of February he will be rushed to our lady's hospital in crumlin to have emergency heart surgery.

So that's who I have come to a decision to make this go fund me as I am really broken and I really need support. I am on social welfare, my husband is stuck in albania after being denied his emergency visa. We have applied for an appeal due to the severity of this situation but who knows how long that will take. I am lost in a world were I can no longer afford to get to hospital appointments every week in dublin and letterkenny and I can't afford to even by clothes for the baby. I am I such a bad situation my mental health feels so low. I have pleaded with other companies that are supposed to help you in these situations but no one has come forward to help me.

So I can say that I am not a person who would usually ask for help. But in this situation I am currently on my last leg.

I have a few weeks more of this hard an emotional journey to go until baby theo is welcomed into the world and I decided now is the time to ask for help. I know its hard with Christmas around the corner and new year. But if anyone could help it would be wonderful it doesn't need to be money it could be baby clothes or baby items they no longer need every tiny bit helps.

If anyone would like to get in touch with me please contact my by messenger.

I would like to thank any one who took the time to read my story.

Please bring light to baby theo and prey everything will be OK.

Thank you