Thank you for visiting my fundraising page! I am participating in the Congenital Heart Walk to support the mission of The Children's Heart Foundation: to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of congenital heart defects by funding the most promising research.
Raising awareness and funds for The Children’s Heart Foundation (CHF) is something we have decided to do in memory of our heart angel Khloe. We chose CHF as it is the country’s leading organization solely dedicated to funding Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) research. The mission of CHF is to fund the most promising research to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of CHD’s.
Please join our team, Khloe's Cause amd help us raise awareness for CHD, help fundraiser towards CHD research, or simply just read our story.
2023 LA Heart Walk:
Griffith Park, Crystal Springs Reserve Pads
4730 Crystal Springs Drive Los Angeles, CA
April 23, 2023
Registration 8:30 AM
Opening Ceremony 9:30 AM
Walk Time 10:00 AM
Event Ends 1:00 PM
Here is our story:
Khloe Faith Cole was born “twin A” on March 13, 2018 in Orange, Ca. Delivered 33 weeks premature; weighing 2 pounds 5 ounces, 14 inches long.
Khloe was born with a large vsd (hole) in her heart and a narrow aeoric arch which was discovered while in the womb. Upon birth she was admitted to Children's hospital of Orange County (CHOC) NICU. Due to her small size, at 3 weeks old Khloe was flown to San Francisco for emergency open heart surgery at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. Dr. Reedy and team performed successful open heart surgery on Khloe weighing just 2 pounds 9 ounces. After her recovery from surgery Khloe was flown back to CHOC to continue with her NICU care. Khloe was thriving; gaining weight and completely off oxygen only needing to take the bottle to be discharged when suddenly she got real sick real fast. It was discovered that Khloe had pulmonary stenosis and pulmonary artery hypertension for which was so severe there was no medical answer to fix this diagnosis.
On June 22, 2018 Khloe let us know her fight was over.
Xo,
Khloe's Mom