Before Graeme McDaniel was born, he was fighting for his life. And even though Graeme...
Graeme was born Dec. 22, 2012. We had a great pregnancy- nothing to be concerned about. And then when I went in for my 34-week appointment, they saw that he had a lower heart rate.
They thought he was in distress. But he was not; he actually had gone into heart block, which was one of his congenital heart defects. They didn't know about that- nothing had been detected during my pregnancy prenatally. Once he was born, they did a full workup on him and realized that he had multiple congenital heart defects.
The doctors took Graeme immediately to the medical center, and then we were able to meet him there shortly after. He spent the first 44 days in the hospital. During that time he underwent two procedures. One was a thoracic procedure with a temporary pacemaker implanted and they widened the aorta. The second procedure was open heart, and they put in a pulmonary artery band and his permanent pacemaker in his abdomen.
We’ve always funded research nationally for child heart defect research foundations.This past September, we started The Graeme McDaniel Foundation, which we're very excited about. We will fund congenital heart defects research locally at Texas Children's and other hospitals, and there are other various projects set for this year.
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