{"id":4,"date":"2019-11-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforlucas\/our-story\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T13:30:15","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlucas\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/376933851\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On 10\/15\/19, &nbsp;Baby Lucas (9mo) was diagnosed with infant restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) &#8211; an extremely rare heart disease. There are no current management options or cure for RCM, and Lucas needs a heart transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after diagnosis, Lucas, his parents Corey and Andrew, along with his big sister, Addy, left their home in Vancouver, WA and relocated to Seattle Children&#8217;s Hospital. Lucas remained inpatient for 4.5 months, when the family was able to move into an apartment near the hospital. After 3 months in an apartment , they were able to take Lucas back home returning every few weeks for clinic visits. They enjoyed 5 months at home before needing to return on 11\/9\/20. Lucas is now listed 1A (highest priority), and will remain inpatient until he gets his perfect heart. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After a sucessful heart transplant operation and recovery, Lucas will require a strictly timed daily medication regimen for the rest of his life, as well as future hospital visits and operations &#8211; both anticipated and potentially unanticipated. To help cover the costs of Lucas&#8217; current and future transplant-related expenses, the family is working with COTA.<\/p>\n<p>The Children&#8217;s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) helps children and young adults who need a life-saving transplant by providing fundraising assistance and family support. COTA is the nation&rsquo;s only fundraising organization solely dedicated to raising life-saving dollars in honor of transplant-needy children and young adults. 100% of each contribution made to COTA in honor of our patients helps meet transplant-related expenses. COTA&rsquo;s services are free to our families, and gifts to COTA are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 10\/15\/19, &nbsp;Baby Lucas (9mo) was diagnosed with infant restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) &#8211; an extremely rare heart disease. There are no current management options or cure for RCM, and Lucas needs a heart transplant. Shortly after diagnosis, Lucas, his parents Corey and Andrew, along with his big sister, Addy, left their home in Vancouver, WA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":44,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlucas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlucas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlucas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlucas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlucas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlucas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlucas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}