Lacey Mother Advocates for National Newborn Screening Awareness Month
Zoey Hardy, a Lanoka Harbor baby with Congenital Heart Disease, will be having her second open heart surgery today
Jaclyn Hardy’s 13-month-old baby went in for open-heart surgery today. On Wednesday, the Lanoka Harbor family prepared for what would be their baby’s second of three open-heart surgeries. Staying overnight in close vicinity to the hospital, the surgeons would open Zoey’s chest for the four-and-a-half-hour surgery. Hardy could not help but wonder what pain could have been avoided had the family known sooner that Zoey had Congenital Heart Disease (CHD). “She was born healthy,” Hardy said. “But there’s certain signs now that we didn’t know before that would be indicators of a heart problem.” Six days after she was born, Zoey returned to the hospital. She was sleeping a lot, wasn’t eating and had blue lips, Hardy said. “Something wasn’t right…
Linny
9:37 am on Friday, September 7, 2012
God Bless baby Zoey with good health after this is all over with and also her family with the strength they will need to get through it all.. Prayers are will you all.. more ›