Lion-Heart Lennox
Funds to cover Lennox's brother and sister to visit when he is at Starship to mend his broken heart, and other related expenses for Lennox.
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Lennox Marley Kahurangi Carroll was born in May 2014 with a rare heart condition. This amazing, brave boy has already endured three open heart surgeries before his three month birthday and will require more, one by the end of the year. This page is to raise funds to cover travel costs from Wellington for Lennox's brother and sister to visit him when he is in Starship Hospital in Auckland. It has been a very challenging year for his entire family, especially his parents Nic & Cory who have adjusted their lives to be by their son's side through all these incredibly difficult times. I am Lennox's Aunty and I have set up this page so that the many, many people who care about this awesome family- plus others who are touched by this little baby and his family's strength and courage- have a way of helping out.
Amy Sammut's involvement (page creator)
I'm involved because I am Lennox's Aunty, and wanted a way for people to help this awesome family who are going through such challenging times.
Going from Lennox’s history he spends a lot of time in and out of intensive care and extremely fragile. Everything is day by day up at Starship - Lennox is OK one day & not so good the next. So when things ARE looking up, flights can usually only booked a day or two before they are needed to fly Lennox's brother and sister up for a visit, and on the weekends - flights can cost upwards of $200 + each way x 2 kids… it all adds up and by donating here it makes it a lot easier to get the kids up as frequently as possible to see their amazing Brother Lennox. His 4th surgery will be next month, March 2015 - and Lennox will have to remain in Auckland with his Mum until he is well enough to return home to Wellington.
Latest update
Doing so well after 4th surgery... 23 April 2015
Such a champion...Lennox has had his 4th surgery up at Starship and coped really well. A huge relief. After a long 7 hours of surgery, all the circulation regarding the top half of his body was re-plumbed (among other things) & now he intentionally has triple the amount of blood-flow going to his brain than he did before the surgery. A massive change for his little body to have to adapt to.
This led to some painful headaches post-op, as well as picking up a cold and tummy bug while on the ward. But this time around, thankfully, Lennox was that much stronger and fought that much harder. We have been back at home for a few weeks now.
We will always be careful in terms of germs and avoid him getting sick where we can. We are still feeling very anxious about getting out and about with the fear of people touching & giving him germs and possibly sending us back to Auckland. Hopefully this will get better with time.
Lennox's impressive wounds are healing nicely, he has been putting on some good weight and is soon able meet all the amazing friends & family he's had thinking of him all this time.
In terms of his next step for treatment, Lennox will be seen weekly by Home Care Nurses & continue to see the Paediatrician at Hutt Hospital & Specialists in town to keep a close eye on how his heart is doing. At this stage, there should be just one more surgery all depending on how he's doing.
For now we are happy to be trying to get back to some kind of "normal" again!
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