Heartbreak for miracle baby - First-time mother races to raise up to US$700,000 for emergency overseas surgery to save newborn son’s life
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- First-time mother Vachel Harwood is trying to raise up to US$700,000 for emergency overseas heart surgery for her newborn son, Kyrique Buchanan.
- Doctors diagnosed Kyrique with hypoplastic left heart syndrome after he developed complications and underwent tests and observation.
“Help, help! I want my baby to live,” Vachel Harwood says. A week after welcoming her first child, the first-time mother is racing to raise as much as US$700,000 for emergency heart surgery overseas to save her newborn son, Kyrique Buchanan.
Kyrique developed complications after his birth and underwent tests and close observation. A cardiologist later diagnosed him with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a congenital heart defect.
Harwood said she does not know whether she will be able to have another child, adding to the urgency surrounding her son’s condition.
Help, help! I want my baby to live. It is my first child, and I don’t know if I will be able to have another one.
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