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Celebrate Life 5K Run/Walk 2019

Team Turtle Power attended the Celebrate Life 5K Run/Walk this past Sunday morning. It was a little chilly when we first arrived but we bundled up Miss Autumn...

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Liver Disease Awareness October

Until recently, I wasn't aware that October is Liver Disease Awareness month. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that my beautiful first born would be stricken...

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IV Infusions

Because of Autumn's liver disease, she has an accumulation of free fluid in her abdominal cavity called ascites. Until she's transplanted, the doctor's utilize a combination of two...

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Papa Bear and Lymphoma

Autumn's grandfather Robert aka "Papa Bear" survived a life-threatening saddle pulmonary embolism in the fall of 2016 and underwent invasive open-heart surgery just last year to remove significant...

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Transplant Evaluation

After Autumn's GI team determined that her Kasai procedure did not work she began the evaluation process to be listed for transplant. Autumn underwent 3 rigorous days of...

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Having A Plan B

After being placed on the national organ transplant list, Autumn's family decided to simultaneously pursue a living donor. Many people don't know that the human liver is the...

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First Mother’s Day – 2019

Autumn's Mommy is a Critical Care Paramedic with Mehlville Fire Protection District and works 24-hour shifts. Unfortunately, Mommy was on duty for her very first Mother's Day celebration....

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Autumn Jane meets Beverly Jane

Autumn was named after her Mommy's grandmother, Beverly Jane. Beverly Jane lives in upstate New York and anxiously awaited the day that she was finally able to fly...

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Autumn Pillman

Lake St Louis, MO

Transplant Type: Liver

Transplant Status: Transplanted

Goal: $50,000.00

Raised: $39,450 of $50,000 goal

Raised by 189 contributors