{"id":5,"date":"2018-07-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaformykajoy\/our-story\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:21:35","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformykajoy\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, many transplant families are unable to shoulder the financial burden of such a procedure.&nbsp; The Children&rsquo;s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) is a national charity dedicated to organizing and guiding communities in raising funds for transplant-related expenses.&nbsp; In Pittsburgh, volunteers have raised funds for COTA in honor of transplant patients like local baby, Myka Joy Reeder.<\/p>\n<p>Myka Joy is the daughter of Richie &amp; Regan Reeder and younger sister of Alivia.&nbsp; Born on January 30, 2015, Myka Joy was diagnosed with Methylmalonic Acidemia and the doctors at Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Pittsburgh, recommended a pediatric liver transplant in the very near future to lessen the severe complications of her disease. &nbsp;The Reeders are grateful for donations in excess of $50,000 that has been raised by friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Myka Joy received her life-changing liver transplant on January 7th, 2017. &nbsp;Her 2-month hospitalization was filled with many complications and setbacks, but she&#8217;s currently on the recovery journey to stable health.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/page.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCOTAforMykaJoy%2F&amp;tabs=timeline&amp;width=340&amp;height=500&amp;small_header=false&amp;adapt_container_width=true&amp;hide_cover=false&amp;show_facepile=true&amp;appId\" width=\"340\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the cost of a transplant often exceeding $500,000, many transplant families are unable to shoulder the financial burden of such a procedure.&nbsp; The Children&rsquo;s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) is a national charity dedicated to organizing and guiding communities in raising funds for transplant-related expenses.&nbsp; In Pittsburgh, volunteers have raised funds for COTA in honor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":157,"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\/cotaformykajoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformykajoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformykajoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformykajoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformykajoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformykajoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformykajoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}