Ellery has spent 18 months inpatient at Children’s Hospital Colorado and has spent most of that time in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. She has tetralogy of fallot, pulmonary atresia, and MAPCAs. She has undergone 3 open heart surgeries and 4 heart catheter procedures. She has had two instances of respiratory + cardiac arrest, both instances required CPR, and she spent a few days on ECMO. She has also had a G-tube surgery, surgery to repair an umbilical hernia, and a tracheotomy. With everything we’ve witnessed over the course of 18 months, I can confidently say that the staff in the heart institute is second to none. They fight for each of their patients until there’s nothing left they can do. With the help of your donation, perhaps someday they, and our children, wouldn’t have to fight quite so hard. Thank you for taking the time to read some of our sweet Ellery’s story, and for considering supporting her and children like her. They say she is the 1 out of 100 who have congenital heart disease, she and the other children and babies here in the heart institute. However, we’ve also learned that if you’re 1 in 100, or maybe you’re feeling lost and more like 1 in a billion, that you’re never alone. Each of us have a Creator that promises to never leave us or forsake us. Not in an operating room or waiting outside of one. Not when your child is getting yet another needle poke after already getting countless. We have a God who knows pain, indeed He took the form of a man, lived years on this earth, and was ultimately beaten and crucified on a cross for your sins and mine. So that through faith in Him as our one and only Savior, each of us would have access to the gates of heaven when our time comes. Ellery’s time will likely come before her dad and I. But yet, we have hope. There is no god who can offer a hope that is greater than the hope we have in Jesus Christ.
