{"id":5,"date":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaformalloryh\/our-story\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:00:00","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformalloryh\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dptext.org\/dpmeter\/users\/smallwidget\/968\" width=\"280\" height=\"173\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After being born a healthy baby girl on April 24, 2012, Mallory was admitted to the hospital.&nbsp; She was diagnosed with Myocarditis &#8211; there was an infection that attacked her heart.&nbsp; She fought for 6 weeks and was discharged with a lasting effect on her heart &#8211; Dilated Cardiomyopathy.&nbsp; The hope was that she would recover heart function over time but, after two years Mallory&rsquo;s heart worsened and she was admitted back into the hospital &#8211; listed as a 1A for a heart transplant in October 2014.<\/p>\n<p> After two long months of waiting and having her family separated from one another, a donor heart was found and Mallory received her life saving gift on December 7, 2014.&nbsp; After 5 days in the hospital, Mallory was home with her family!<\/p>\n<p> This past spring\/summer (2023), Mallory&rsquo;s stomach started hurting and she lost a lot of weight.&nbsp; While on vacation at the beach, her family noticed an abscess on the side of her abdomen and after many scans and tests it was diagnosed as Lymphoma.&nbsp; Because of her transplant medications, Mallory is at risk for some types of cancers and about 10% of children will develop PTLD (post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder).<\/p>\n<p> Mallory is now undergoing chemotherapy treatment and is once again fighting for her life!&nbsp; She will undergo 5 rounds of chemotherapy over the next several months.<\/p>\n<p> For the last 8 years since her heart transplant, Mallory was home with her family living a fulfilled life.&nbsp; Other than daily medication and sometimes having sickness last a little longer than other kids, Mallory was just like any other 11-year-old!&nbsp; She loves musical theater, swimming in her pool, spending time with family and traveling!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Mallory is ready for this fight and has so many prayers being lifted up in her name!&nbsp; When she found out about her cancer, Mallory said &ldquo;If I can survive a heart transplant at 2, I can punch cancer in the face now!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> Yes you can and you will Mallory!<\/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>After being born a healthy baby girl on April 24, 2012, Mallory was admitted to the hospital.&nbsp; She was diagnosed with Myocarditis &#8211; there was an infection that attacked her heart.&nbsp; She fought for 6 weeks and was discharged with a lasting effect on her heart &#8211; Dilated Cardiomyopathy.&nbsp; The hope was that she would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformalloryh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformalloryh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformalloryh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformalloryh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformalloryh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformalloryh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformalloryh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}