Teagan was born with a Congenital Heart Defect called Pulmonary Atresia with a VSD and MAPCA's.  It is a fairly rare defect and only one in 3 million kids have it.  Her defect is that she is missing her pulmonary artery (takes blood from the heart to the lungs to be oxygenated) a hole in her heart and tiny angel hair pasta sized veins that grew to try and compensate for her not having the Pulmonary Artery (MAPCA's).  Teagan had her first open heart surgery at 4 days old and then her second open heart surgery at 4 months old.  With this surgery they tried to make a Pulmonary Artery for her using cadaver tissue.  Then between that surgery and now she has had four more surgeries (heart caths).  They went in and ballooned open the Pulmonary Arteries's and placed three stents to try and keep them open and the blood flowing.  The reason that she needs another surgery is that the ballooning and stenting is not working.  The arteries are narrowing and it's kind of like a fire hose trying to squirt into a garden hose.  The pressure is backing up into her heart and sending her into heart failure.  This surgery they will be attempting to graft more tissue onto the arteries to make them bigger yet again, and try and go out farther towards the lungs.  We have chosen to have the surgery done at Stanford, California.  The surgeon there pioneered the surgery that she needs and he has done over 500 of these surgeries.  We have been told that this surgery is our last resort.  If it doesn't work we are out of options for our sweet little girl so we want the best that there is. Please help us raise funds for medical and travel expenses. Thank you!