My Baby Is Blue

Warm greetings,

Thanks for taking your time to read this.

I’m Lilian Wairimu and my son’s name is Myles Ndungu. We live in Kenya.

My son is fighting Tricuspid atresia, a congenital heart defect

Back in 2015, my son was diagnosed with a very rare disease—Tricuspid atresia—which occurs due to abnormal development of the fetal heart during the first 8 weeks of pregnancy.

After 3 days of birth, my son turned blue and that’s when he was diagnosed with Tricuspid atresia disease.

We started seeking medical help and the medical experts advised that the disease is treated in 3 intervals.

My son underwent 1st and 2nd surgery since 2015

My son underwent his 1st surgery in 2015 when he was 2 months old.

He underwent the 2nd surgery a year later, in 2017, which was done by a team of Slovakian visiting doctors.

Help us to seek 3rd and final stage treatment to India

He currently needs to undergo the 3rd and final stage treatment. But it’s hard to get the treatment in our country…

Unfortunately, we don’t have a doctor who can conduct this locally. And, due to the Covid-19 crisis, we weren’t able to get a visiting doctor who could treat Myles in our country.

Our local pediatric cardiologist has recommended us to seek treatment outside the country, in India.

Through your generous support, we hope to go to the Miot Children Hospital in India for Myles’ final treatment.

The cost of the treatment is Kenya shillings 2 million (approximately US $20,000). This includes US$ 15,000 for the medical bill, $2,000 for Visa and air tickets, and $3,000 for accommodation.

We really need your help

The pain of seeing our son struggle with a disease they know nothing about is traumatizing to us as parents.

I am a housewife and my husband a businessman at Gikomba. His business was greatly affected by the Covid-19 crisis and recurring fire outbreaks.

We have already spent a lot of money from the previous surgeries, clinic visits, and medications and we’re left with little or no money on this lifesaving surgery.

We kindly appeal to you reading this to help me raise this medical fund and give my son a chance to life.

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