Support Baby Walker's Rare Heart Journey

We are the mom and dad (Samantha/Tyler) of a sweet baby boy (Walker Lee Slaton) who has Situs Inversus with Dextrocardia, which is a rare congenital condition where the heart and all other organs are positioned to the right side of the body, unlike a person that doesn’t have this condition, their heart and organs position to the left side of the body.

He also didn’t form his pulmonary valve atresia; this prevents blood from flowing from the right side of the heart to the lungs. He is a single ventricle patient, which is due to his mitral, aortic, and tricuspid valves not developing correctly, meaning his red and blue bloods are mixing instead of the red blood being on the left side of the chamber and his blue blood being on the right side of the chamber. Many single ventricle defects require multiple surgeries to help the heart function better and improve blood flow.

Luckily, the OB-GYN noticed his Situs Inversus with Dextrocardia within the second trimester of pregnancy, which allowed us to have enough time to see a specialist in Midland who referred us to Fort Worth’s Cooks Children’s Hospital, who were able to find out all of his problems and get a surgery plan created for his needs.

Therefore we dropped everything and found a way for us to move to Fort Worth on April 15th, we are currently staying at the Ronald McDonald House which has been so helpful but soon we will need to start looking for an apartment to live in. I had my c- section May 19th @7:30, The day he was born they did open heart surgery on his heart and lungs everything went well @3:00am we woke up to go see him because we had just found out that his heart rate was going up and down so they had to do chest compressions he was down for 40 min, On day 2 they did a procedure to put him on an ECMO machine which helps his heart to keep on pumping it is also circulating the blood for his lungs it’s basically life support for his heart and lungs, After putting him on ECMO they put leads on his head to make sure he didn’t take any damage on the brain from being so young and down for so long.

Its now day 6 of being born/ out of surgery and things are looking good but they are going to add a machine and also attaches into the ECMO for his kidneys to help with the fluid in his body because he is swelling, when he is done swelling they will have a bigger chance of taking all the machines off

we asking for help because we moved here and didn’t have time to save money or find a place and out time at the Ronald house is limited, we won’t be able to leave fort worth due to other surgeries and procedures that he will need.

Thank you all for all your help and prayers❤️