12 years heartaversery

12 years! We are very grateful that we were able to celebrate Makenzie's Heartaversery with her. Makenzie made Brownies and decorated it with hearts, and then we went and got 12 balloons so we could release them up to heaven for her donor. We do that every year to honor her donor.
We are so grateful that 12 yrs ago someone said Yes to Organ Donation, and gave us 12 extra years with Makenzie. We are praying that someone else will say Yes to Organ Donation so we can have another 12+ years with Kenzie with that same Angel Heart.
This heart journey is defiantly not the easiest but Makenzie has proven that she can overcome hard things that come into her life and not give up.

Heart Failure/Listed for 2nd transplant

Makenzie had a Cath done, and the results were not what we were hoping for. The results came back as her having CAD (Coronary Artery Disease) which is common for transplant, and the result of needing a New Heart Transplant. We are so thankful that her heart lasted 12 years, but definitely hoped it would have lasted longer.

She was Placed on the list as of May 2, 2019 as a status 1B. She will be able to stay out patient while on milrinone to help keep her heart functioning properly while she waits for an angel heart to come. We are hoping one will come real soon, but it's that mixed emotion of someone else losing a child, which I can not imagine having to go through that.

But we are so ever grateful that when the time comes that someone said yes to Organ Donation, and saved our girls life.