Hi Everyone

This campaign is for the benefit of Scot and Danielle and their family. Specifically, this is for their 4 year old miracle son Jack who is about to go through his second heart surgery in November.

Jack is your typical little boy who loves playing outside, riding his bike, RC Cars, Noodles and Co. Mac and Cheese and of course his little sister! He is a smarty pants at 4 years old who wants to know how everything works. He taught me recently just how solar lights work!!

It’s hard to imagine the emotions that Scot and Danielle have while walking with Jack along this journey. We would like to help ease some of the worry by helping them with some of the costs that go along with this.

Jack will have to be in the hospital for about a week and then at least 2 weeks of recovery at home. That means a lot of time off work for both of them and many miles driving to Children’s hospital. Danielle works part time and unfortunately isn’t offered PTO so this will be a long stretch of no income from her job.

Donations will help cover missed work, travel, bills and medical expenses. Any donation is incredibly appreciated by Scot, Danielle and Jack. Please also remember to keep the family in your prayers as the prayers mean so much to them and please share this fundraiser on your social media

Here is Jacks story that Danielle shared.

Jacks story:

Scot and I married in 2015 and wanted to start a family. We tried on our own for about a year

with no success. My doctor recommended seeing a specialist for infertility. We started that

journey and went through two rounds of IVF with no luck each time. After the second failed

attempt and about four years of trying we we’re devastated and thought we would never have

our own biological children. We were heart broken and decided to take a break and discuss

other options like adoption. A few weeks later I had a vivid dream that I was pregnant and that I

would find out in a week. I decided that I would keep the dream to myself and not tell anyone, I

couldn’t stop thinking about it. I decided I would take a test a week after my dream. I will never

forget seeing the two pink lines. I was in shock, Scot was in the garage working and I called

him on his phone to come in the house quickly. We were both so happy, crying and hugging

each other. Barely able to believe our own eyes. I couldn’t wait to tell my mom, we put the test

in a ziplock bag and tied it with a ribbon around Dolly our dogs neck and went over to moms

house. She was so excited to be a grandma.

Everything was going smoothly with our little miracle baby, until we went to my 20 week

anatomy scan. We were overjoyed to find out we were having a baby boy and knew right away

his name would be Jack. That joy was diminished when we found out he had a heart condition.

The doctor referred us to a cardiologist at Froedert for further scans, that would focus on his

heart. The original thought was that he had hypoplastic left heart syndrome which would have

included three surgeries. The cardiologist couldn’t give us a definite diagnosis until Jack was

born. We were then followed by the Herma Heart Institute at children’s hospital

The remaining 20 weeks of my pregnancy was filled with doctors appointments and worry that

our little boy would have to go through so many surgeries.

When Jack arrived on 4/26/21 we were so scared of what was to come but incredible blessed

with our baby boy, our miracle. A few days after he was born they diagnosed him with a

coarctation of the aorta, he also had some other problems such as a bicuspid aortic valve,

hypoplastic left ventricle, and a atrial septal defect. On April 30th Jack had heart surgery to fix

the coarctation of the aorta. The surgery was a success, he was meeting and exceeding the

doctors expectations. Jack was such a fighter and we were released from the hospital May 8th.

We didn’t tell anyone that he was potentially coming home until we got the discharge papers

and went home. After getting home the first call I made was a FaceTime call to my mom, Jacks

grandma. She didn’t catch on right away that I was sitting in Jacks bedroom and he was in his

crib. She poured her heart into helping make it perfect for him, and was my biggest supporter

from the beginning.

The following day was May 9th Mother’s Day and the 10th is my birthday. Jack and being

home from the hospital was the greatest gift.

We always knew that Jack would most likely have to have some type of intervention to help

with the other problems with his heart. The doctors were optimistic that he would be a good

candidate for angioplasty. Every time we went to the cardiologist we were nervous that this

would be the appointment that they told us it was time to act.

On Sept 26th 2025 we took Jack to his routine echocardiogram and got the news we have

been dreading. His cardiologist said Jack needs to have open heart surgery. Both Scot and I

were in shock that it was time to act and that it would have to be open heart surgery.

On November 19th 2025 Jack will be having open heart surgery at Children’s Hospital to

address the issues with his aortic valve. They are fixing his aortic valve so it functions properly, removing a membrane that is not supposed to be there and narrowing after the aortic valve.

The doctors are optimistic that this surgery will be a success