 Update:
On July 3, 2006 a heart donor match was found for Taylor “Tee” Burton and she underwent her 3rd heart transplant surgery that day. Her doctors are very pleased with the results and she has been recovering quite well. Your continued prayers and good wishes are much appreciated! |
Tee in the News: |
 During
one of our stays in the hospital, we became very close to a family
we met during our hospital stay. Their
seven year old little girl is battling cancer. One day while in her
hospital bed, Tee said to me, “Mom, I'm so lucky I don't have cancer...those
kids have it so hard”. Sometimes I think all children that have to
face adversity at such a young age have the same spirit, outlook,
and hope as Tee. This is true, they do. But, somehow, there is something
undeniably unique about her. My life with her has taught me that regardless
of her physical circumstance, she is truly one of a kind. Tee is a thirteen year old little girl. She has every Sims game, loves the Pacific Ocean, surfs when she can, worries that she cut her bangs too short, knows every IM word short cut known to modern man, has the spirit of Aloha flowing through her blood, possesses fearlessness, and is intolerant of falseness and untruths, yet she is fiercely empathetic. Who knew that in 1994, at nearly two years of age, she would begin this incredible journey? It was during a simple preschool physical that a nurse noticed an unusually rapid heart rate. Tee was referred to a specialist that was the expert in Supra Ventricular Tachycardia (lay man terms: a heart that had multiple electrical nodes that caused her heart rate to beat 180-200 beats per minute). At four years old and by her doctor's third attempt to ablate the extra nodes, she had developed Cardio Myopathy which led to her first transplant, July of 1997. Two episodes of passing out on the playground lead to her second transplant September of 2003.  February
4, 2005 , Tee went in for a standard biopsy. Unfortunately, she had
not been feeling well for nearly two months, her compromised heart
and body had to undergo general anesthesia. There is a 1/50,000 chance
of dying from a biopsy. She came very close to being the 1. That morning,
the fourth attempt to shock her saved her life. Little Taylor Grey moves forward with the heart of a champion, and with a spirit that is without boundaries. |
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