Jaycee Jeffries

Jaycee Grace Jeffries was born on February 12, 2016 at St. France’s Children’s Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was born with multiple heart defects and Down’s Syndrome. She was airlifted to OU Children’s Hospital where she had open heart surgery to completely reconstruct her aortic arch. After a long hard recovery, she was transported back to Tulsa to finish recovering. While in Tulsa she underwent a Fundoplication, in which her stomach had to be wrapped around her esophagus and a Mickey button placed due to trauma and feeding issues. She is not capable of taking anything orally and is having to undergo multiple therapies.

Jaycee Grace will continue to live with some degree of heart failure until her next open heart surgery. She will return back to OU Children’s Hospital at around six months of age, where she will undergo a Complete AV Canal. Jaycee Grace will need to have in-home physical, occupational, and speech therapy for the next several years.

Jaycee Grace is a fighter! Following her first open heart surgery, a nurse of twenty-two years told Jaycee’s parents “she’s wanting to wake-up more than any baby I’ve ever seen, we’re having to keep her heavily sedated.” A surgeon at St. France’s told them “the first dosage of sedation usually knocks a baby her size out quickly, but Jaycee just looked at me like ‘is that all ya got’.”

Jaycee’s parents face many expenses for years to come including health care and medications not covered by insurance, specialized in-home therapy, and home modifications to accommodate therapy.
To help with the financial burden of Jaycee Graces’ uninsured expenses, a fundraising campaign in her honor has been established with Help Hope Live, a trusted nonprofit organization that has been providing community-based fundraising guidance to patients and their families for more than 30 years. All donations are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law, are held by Help Hope Live in the South-Central Catastrophic Illness Fund, and are administered by Help Hope Live for illness-related expenses only. To make a donation to this fundraising campaign, click on the Donate Now button.

Thank you and God bless you for your support and prayers for Jaycee Grace.

Sincerely,

Dallas Jeffries – pape
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