Support Timicia's Fight for a New Heart

No mother should have to watch her daughter have so many bouts with death. Yet, here we are again, helplessly watching my 36-year-old daughter, Timicia, in the ICU again, fighting for her life in New York City. She's almost 1,000 miles from her home in Georgia, but she is in the best care with the top doctors who have finally given her hope that she will be able to make it through this decade-long battle of heart failure.

The initial exact medical diagnosis was peripartum cardiomyopathy. This is when the heart fails to function due to the stress of pregnancy. There were no signs of heart failure with her first child in 2011, but when the second one came exactly one year later, she started showing very serious concerns with her heart. The pregnancy was a very difficult time, but God brought us through it. The doctors continued to help her get her heart strong for the next few years. However, when my handsome grandson was born in 2016, her heart became very weak. The doctors told her to abort him or neither one of them would make it. She made a very hard decision for the sake of the child she was carrying and her two children. She chose to keep him, and we stood by her all the way. I am so blessed to have these three beautiful grandchildren.

That choice came with a great price. Her heart became weaker, and we had many bouts with hospital stays, shock therapy, afib events, PVCs, PACs, and Timicia going in and out of sinus rhythm. She wants to work but can't because she gets very winded. She tries to do what any young woman would want to do but is always limited. She has a pacemaker along with other heart-assisted devices just so she can live to be there for her babies. Her dream was to become an obstetrician. Now her dream is to live another day to see her children become everything she hoped for.

Fast forward to now. She had a procedure done in late March 2025, in Georgia, to help extend the functioning of the heart. The anesthesia from the procedure caused her to stop breathing, and she was put on a ventilator. Immediately after she started breathing better, she was released from the hospital and given a very grim outlook for the future.

My baby said, "Mom, should we get another opinion?" I am a mom. Of course, we should get another opinion. The only other opinion I trusted was her team of doctors she had when we lived in New York. We contacted her New York heart failure specialist who looked at her records and immediately told her to get to him. That's all I needed to know. I flew her to New York, and he admitted her into the ICU. At first, it didn't look too well, but this doctor is the top doctor for heart transplants at a top hospital. He and his team started working on my daughter, and things started looking better. We have been thanking God for every improvement the doctors present to us over the past few days.

Here is the problem. She has to stay in New York to continue this excellent care. They want to prepare her for a heart transplant while she is in New York. We live in Georgia. Her children go to school in Georgia. I don't want to be so far from my baby girl. I need to be there with her. She needs to see her children, all while regular life is still happening. It's not just the regular stuff like rent and utilities. Now it's airfare, medical needs (because insurance doesn't pay for everything), and trying to be close to her because she is still in very serious condition. Children are now under my care, so this is a lot of additional expenses. I truly trust God that she will get through this. The journey before we get there is quite expensive. Just getting her to New York was more than I had, but she is there. We had to drop everything when we heard how critical it was and get the children to see their mom. That's a lot of airfare.

Your donations will be used to fund continued airfare so she is not alone as she continues to undergo many serious procedures, medical costs that are not covered, and to make sure she stays close to the children she loves so much while she fights to live to raise them. Every donation, no matter how much it is, is so much appreciated. Every bit of it is a blessing, and our prayer is that it is returned back to you abundantly. If you have nothing to give, please pray for my daughter, my three grandchildren, and myself. We are determined to see her live life to the fullest. Thank you from the depths of our heart.

A website will follow for everyone to follow her journey because I refuse to believe that my daughter's dreams will die.