A Million Miracles for Mia
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EN ESPAÑOL: Un Millón de Milagros para Mia
She’s just turned 10 months old and she’s already been hospitalized 5 times since her birth on January 21st, 2017.
After suffering from persistent jaundice, she was taken to the doctor who misdiagnosed her and did not detect she had a rare congenital disease called Biliary Atresia on time for it to be treated with surgery and save her liver. Biliary Atresia affects infants, usually showing up 2 to 8 weeks after birth; in Mia’s case, it would appear she also has Biliary Cirrhosis, in which the liver and bile ducts are slowly destroyed. Her liver is now in severe failure and her only hope for life is an URGENT LIVER TRANSPLANT.
For her family, sustained only by her father’s farming in the small mountain town of Zambrano (30 minutes away from the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa), this is a monumental and daunting mountain to climb.
Honduras is a third world country with very limited medical care facilities that do not have the capabilities to perform a liver transplant. Friends of Mia’s dad, who everyone knows by his nickname, Chele, have helped in many small tasks like sending emails and making phone calls to get the word out. All these small efforts have added up to a chance of baby Mia being admitted in a US hospital for her urgently needed transplant.
Click here to see the report made by the Honduran TV channel, HCH
Click here for an update done in November 2017
Dozens of things have to happen before this is a reality for baby Mia, like actual admittance by a medical team, which the family is feverishly working on, translating every medical record and sending it to contacts in the US; visas for the family, who also have an 8 year old daughter they can’t leave behind; and determining which parent’s liver is compatible with Mia in order for them to donate part of their own to their little girl.
And, finally, the down payment required for a hospital to proceed, which begins at $1,000,000*. It is, like we said, daunting and discouraging, but we trust that a million miracles are possible for this Honduran family who are praying for just one: that baby Mia Valentina lives to have a normal childhood, and hope for a future.
As you can see from the pictures, Mia's health is rapidly deteriorating, and every hour of every day counts for this family that is desperately searching, working and hoping for the next little miracle.
Please contribute to this cause, please bring hope and comfort to this family with a donation that brings them closer to the seemingly insuperable amount of $1,000,0000* that would cover for baby Mia’s transplant in the US. But, with your help, and God's favor, this miracle is possible!
*We recently lowered our goal to $500,00 per the family's request since they are continually looking for better options for their daughter in various hospitals.*
She’s just turned 10 months old and she’s already been hospitalized 5 times since her birth on January 21st, 2017.
After suffering from persistent jaundice, she was taken to the doctor who misdiagnosed her and did not detect she had a rare congenital disease called Biliary Atresia on time for it to be treated with surgery and save her liver. Biliary Atresia affects infants, usually showing up 2 to 8 weeks after birth; in Mia’s case, it would appear she also has Biliary Cirrhosis, in which the liver and bile ducts are slowly destroyed. Her liver is now in severe failure and her only hope for life is an URGENT LIVER TRANSPLANT.
For her family, sustained only by her father’s farming in the small mountain town of Zambrano (30 minutes away from the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa), this is a monumental and daunting mountain to climb.
Honduras is a third world country with very limited medical care facilities that do not have the capabilities to perform a liver transplant. Friends of Mia’s dad, who everyone knows by his nickname, Chele, have helped in many small tasks like sending emails and making phone calls to get the word out. All these small efforts have added up to a chance of baby Mia being admitted in a US hospital for her urgently needed transplant.
Click here to see the report made by the Honduran TV channel, HCH
Click here for an update done in November 2017
Dozens of things have to happen before this is a reality for baby Mia, like actual admittance by a medical team, which the family is feverishly working on, translating every medical record and sending it to contacts in the US; visas for the family, who also have an 8 year old daughter they can’t leave behind; and determining which parent’s liver is compatible with Mia in order for them to donate part of their own to their little girl.
And, finally, the down payment required for a hospital to proceed, which begins at $1,000,000*. It is, like we said, daunting and discouraging, but we trust that a million miracles are possible for this Honduran family who are praying for just one: that baby Mia Valentina lives to have a normal childhood, and hope for a future.
As you can see from the pictures, Mia's health is rapidly deteriorating, and every hour of every day counts for this family that is desperately searching, working and hoping for the next little miracle.
Please contribute to this cause, please bring hope and comfort to this family with a donation that brings them closer to the seemingly insuperable amount of $1,000,0000* that would cover for baby Mia’s transplant in the US. But, with your help, and God's favor, this miracle is possible!
*We recently lowered our goal to $500,00 per the family's request since they are continually looking for better options for their daughter in various hospitals.*
Organizer
Jessica Hughes
Organizer
Miami, FL
