Tia is a 37 year old mother of two active teenagers ages 13 and 14. She loves spending quality time with her family & friends and is involved in many community organizations and activities such as both the Boy Scouts and Girl scouts. She loves the outdoors. Tia also loves to spend her free time traveling, camping, going to amusement parks, and visiting museums of many types.
In 2011, Tia began developing health issues. She was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure. She had been managing well with medication up until October 2013 when she found herself in-and-out of the hospital almost every month for shortness of breath and fluid overload in her lungs. In April of 2018, Tia took a turn for the worse where now she was being hospitalized more often with longer stays sometimes weeks at a time. On July 28th 2018 she went to the ER because she could not breathe because of the amount of fluid on her lungs and the way her heart was pumping. Tia had to be admitted into 4 different hospitals in the span of 2 weeks. At the 3rd hospital they said the best course of action would be for an Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) to be implanted. She was then transferred to The 4th hospital where she had to have immediate surgery. At this point the LVAD is working well, but the best course of action to get her back to the active life she had before would be for heart transplant.
Tia has chosen to fundraise for Help Hope Live in part because Help Hope Live assures fiscal accountability of funds raised and tax deductibility for contributors. Contributors can be sure donations will be used to pay or reimburse medical and related expenses. To make a tax-deductible donation to this fundraiing campaign, click on the Give button.
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