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A Marathon, Not a Sprint

Week of transplant: April 13-18 We’re running a marathon on an uncharted course and it is full of hills. The ups and downs of recovery are expected, yet...

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Kya Status Update

Kya's transplant surgery is complete. All good so far. We are waiting to see her although she won't be awake for several hours. Doctors said to expect a...

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Kya has been offered a heart!

Our girl has been offered a heart. It’s hard to put language around something this sacred. We are overwhelmed with relief and gratitude, and at the very same...

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Ready, Set, GO!

We want to emphasize how acutely aware we are that while our pleas and prayers may be answered, it will be at the expense of another family’s deepest...

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Transplant Go Time

Medical Update from Mom (Angelia)  Hurry Up and Wait Kya and I (Angelia) recently spent four days at Vanderbilt for heart transplant evaluation. Like Eli’s, it involved about a dozen...

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Tilt-A-Whirl

Ever feel like you’ve been shaken up and tossed out? You know that feeling when you step off a Tilt-A-Whirl ride at the fair - disoriented, a little...

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Life Interrupted

She was napping and woke briefly to reach for my hand Each week or month that passes from the previous blog entry, I tell myself I should post...

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Q & A with Eli

Q: What are your first memories of the impact of being diagnosed with Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC)? I remember realizing “I can’t do ‘the things’, my passions.”...

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Elijah and Kya Ham

Birmingham, AL

Transplant Type: Heart

Transplant Status: Transplanted

Goal: $150,000.00

Raised: $55,314 of $150,000 goal

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