Willow's Medical Journey & How You Can Help
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We have formed a team of friends and family to help our dear friends Tosha and Topher with medical and daily expenses for their precious baby, Willow. We are asking our friends and family to help us raise funds to help support this family while in the hospital. Currently, Tosha and Topher are not working as they are spending every waking moment with Willow during this critical time in her life. Please give if you can and share as much as possible to help them on this long journey. As we get updates from Tosha and Topher about baby Willow we will post them here.
February 4, 2020 Update:
A blood drive is being setup on Monday, February 10th in the Rouse's lot in Claiborne Hill. The blood drive is through Ochsner Hospital.
More updates as soon as they come in.
February 2, 2020 Update:
We have received so many messages and calls from everyone! We are so filled with love and gratitude. I wanted to give you all an update and summary of our journey thus far. Willow has a congenital heart defect that requires open heart surgery between the ages of 4 and 6 months. She is currently about 4 1/2 months. We found out about her defect when I was almost 8 months pregnant. Prior to that, they said everything was perfect with her and the pregnancy. She was in the nicu for 5 days after she was born. They sent us home for her to grow and thrive to be ready for the predicted surgery. We have had 4 months of her being pretty much clear of symptoms. A few weeks ago, she started showing some of these things the doctor’s had told us to look out for. Her cardiologist admitted her on January 15th, because he was concerned that her weight gain had slowed down significantly over time. They said we would probably be here 3-4 days. We came here to help her gain weight, and they started her on meds to help her condition. They put an ng feeding tube down her nose into her stomach to regulate her feeds better. This was all new to us, so you can imagine how concerning this all could be. She was doing great, and told us last Monday we could possibly go home until her surgery, which they scheduled for February 19th. Then within hours, she started to show symptoms again. Everything happened so fast and got really scary. They moved her to the pediatric cardiology intensive care unit. Within hours she had gone from playing, cooing, smiling to being on a breathing tube, hooked up to all these machines, having a central line put in, she had a blood transfusion and a lot of meds. She is stable now and doing great! Her numbers are good now, and she’s opening her eyes and smiling at us with her eyebrows! She is also gaining a bit of a reputation here for being a fierce and feisty warrior! She was fighting through the sedation like the fighter who wouldn’t go down! Her strength is unbelievably impressive as she presses on. We are currently waiting for the surgery team to meet in the morning to determine how soon they want to move up her surgery. I can’t tell you how touched we are with outpouring of love and generosity! Please continue to send prayers, healing energy, light and love! This means so much to us all!!!! I will continue to post updates! ❤️❤️❤️
February 4, 2020 Update:
A blood drive is being setup on Monday, February 10th in the Rouse's lot in Claiborne Hill. The blood drive is through Ochsner Hospital.
More updates as soon as they come in.
February 2, 2020 Update:
We have received so many messages and calls from everyone! We are so filled with love and gratitude. I wanted to give you all an update and summary of our journey thus far. Willow has a congenital heart defect that requires open heart surgery between the ages of 4 and 6 months. She is currently about 4 1/2 months. We found out about her defect when I was almost 8 months pregnant. Prior to that, they said everything was perfect with her and the pregnancy. She was in the nicu for 5 days after she was born. They sent us home for her to grow and thrive to be ready for the predicted surgery. We have had 4 months of her being pretty much clear of symptoms. A few weeks ago, she started showing some of these things the doctor’s had told us to look out for. Her cardiologist admitted her on January 15th, because he was concerned that her weight gain had slowed down significantly over time. They said we would probably be here 3-4 days. We came here to help her gain weight, and they started her on meds to help her condition. They put an ng feeding tube down her nose into her stomach to regulate her feeds better. This was all new to us, so you can imagine how concerning this all could be. She was doing great, and told us last Monday we could possibly go home until her surgery, which they scheduled for February 19th. Then within hours, she started to show symptoms again. Everything happened so fast and got really scary. They moved her to the pediatric cardiology intensive care unit. Within hours she had gone from playing, cooing, smiling to being on a breathing tube, hooked up to all these machines, having a central line put in, she had a blood transfusion and a lot of meds. She is stable now and doing great! Her numbers are good now, and she’s opening her eyes and smiling at us with her eyebrows! She is also gaining a bit of a reputation here for being a fierce and feisty warrior! She was fighting through the sedation like the fighter who wouldn’t go down! Her strength is unbelievably impressive as she presses on. We are currently waiting for the surgery team to meet in the morning to determine how soon they want to move up her surgery. I can’t tell you how touched we are with outpouring of love and generosity! Please continue to send prayers, healing energy, light and love! This means so much to us all!!!! I will continue to post updates! ❤️❤️❤️
Fundraising team: Team Willow (2)
Team Willow
Organizer
Covington, LA
Tosha Lafont
Team member
