{"id":4,"date":"2020-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforteammarya\/our-story\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T00:00:00","slug":"our-story","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteammarya\/our-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello Friends and Family! I have Cystic Fibrosis. CF is a hereditary disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. The body produces thick and sticky mucus that can clog the lungs and obstruct the pancreas. It<\/span> can be life-threatening, and people with the condition tend to have a shorter-than-normal life span. At the age of 32 I gave up my career to focus on my health in January 2019. Luckily, in about 7 months time, I received my life-saving double lung transplant on July 28th, 2019 after having 2 dry runs. I spent 30 days in the hospital recovering, another 3 months going to daily pulmonary rehab, and a long recovery at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve chosen to enlist the help of the Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) during my transplant journey (before, during, and recovery for years following). COTA<\/span> (COTA) helps children and young adults who need a life-saving transplant by providing fundraising assistance and family support. COTA is the nation’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’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":"

Hello Friends and Family! I have Cystic Fibrosis. CF is a hereditary disease that affects the lungs and digestive system. The body produces thick and sticky mucus that can clog the lungs and obstruct the pancreas. It can be life-threatening, and people with the condition tend to have a shorter-than-normal life span. At the age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5,"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\/cotaforteammarya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteammarya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteammarya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteammarya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteammarya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteammarya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteammarya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}