Lara *Cardiomyopathy & Organ Donation Awareness *'s Interests
General
My family, cooking, nutrition, comedy shows, watching sports, selling on eBay.
I am a Tupperware Consultant - Check out my webpage!
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Click on the banner to go directly to the online party!
These are my 2 ebay stores:
Curlyfry's Closet - New and used designer childrens clothing, DVDs, books, jewelry, and gifts. Some listings are to raise donations for Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation. Cowhide Western Furniture - high quality western leather furniture. Here are also some of my friends ebay stores! Click below to visit!
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Items ending today, some with no bids yet! (including baby clothes!)
It is important to me to raise awareness for Pediatric Cardiomyopathy and the importance of Organ Donation. Check out these sites:
Check out my Zazzle store for "A Heart for Gabby Rose" T-shirts, hats, tote bags, stickers, magnets, etc. All products are designed to raise awareness for Pediatric Cardiomyopahty and Organ Donation. Thanks for Looking!
www.zazzle.com/laraiezzi*
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create & buy custom products at Zazzle
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Movies
Video of Gabby playing Uncle Guy's drums!
Television
This is a must use site if you shop online! Get cash back- its free!!
I have been selling my child's outgrown clothing on ebay for a couple of years. Here are some links to some websites that I have found helpful.
To get useful information about selling and buying Gymboree clothing:
Gymboree News & Gossip ~ Never Miss A Bargain Again!
Here Comes The Stork is a great website for all the information you need to get started making money selling kids clothes on ebay - check it out at the link below!
The Sellers Sourcebook is a hosting website that you can get templates to easily make your listings look more attractive and professional. If you sell Gymboree they even have templates that match each line! Check it out below!
Lara *Cardiomyopathy & Organ Donation Awareness *'s Blurbs
About me: Hi,
I am from Dallas, TX where I have lived most of my life. I have a wonderful husband named Greg who is a New Jersey Boy, and a very special 2 year old daughter named Gabby. Gabby is my miracle child and the light of my life. Gabby was born on January 26, 2005 by emergency C-section. I had an abruption, and if we had not happened to be at the doctors office when it happened, neither may be alive today. Gabby was born 4 weeks early, but was absolutely perfect! Gabby was a very healthy baby, never had more than the occassional cold she would pick up from day care - until one day on Oct 2, 2006, when Gabby was 20 months old, I got the call at work that every parent hopes to never get. Gabby's daycare called and said that she was breathing very rapidly, not eating, dry heaving, and laying on the floor with no energy. What?! I rushed her to E.R. - couldn't imagine what might be wrong with her. In the E.R. the doctor told us that he was a bit concerned because her x-ray showed that her heart was a bit enlarged and was going to get her up to ICU and call cardiology. What?!!!! My husband and I were stunned. How could this be? It turned out that Gabby had Dilated Cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart is enlarged so much that it has trouble pumping blood to the body properly. We had no idea. Gabby's Cardiomyopathy had caused her to have congestive heart failure and also caused arrythimias in her heart. To this day, despite many many genetic tests, blood tests, tests for viruses, etc, it is still unknown how Gabby got this condition. It is suspected that she got a virus that effected her heart, but it was never able to be proven. Back in October Gabby spent 6 weeks in the PICU at Medical City Dallas. They kept her on IV meds to improve her condition. She improved enough to go home, and to look at her you couldn't even tell anything was wrong with her. However, her heart had not improved. We continued to see her cardiologist every other week. She was okay for a couple of months, then at the end of January she started declining. She was not eating, she had lost 2 pounds in a week, and she had no energy at all. The doctor sent us down to Texas Childrens Hospital in Houston - it was time to be evaluated for heart transplant. What?!!! How did this all happen so fast? My baby was fine - and now she needs a heart transplant? Talk about having your world rocked! Gabby was put on the transplant list, but was declining so was kept in ICU. By the end of February she had declined enough to need to be put on the Berlin Heart, which is a ventricular assist device - the only one that can be used long term for children her size, and that is not FDA approved for use in the US except by specail circumstance. She was approved - she wouldn't have made it without it. 8 days later, on March 6, 2007 we got the call. They had found Gabby a heart!! Gabby had her heart transplant. All went very well. She did have a small stroke from a blood clot on the Berlin Heart, but it so far has not seemed to effect her - it hit a part of her brain that wasn't too damaging. Thank God! Gabby was in the hospital recovering until Easter, April 8, when we were allowed to take our little miracle home! Actually, I use the term "home" loosley. We are still in Houston, where we have to stay for 3 months post transplant, but we will be allowed to go home to Dallas after June 13. We can't wait! Gabby is still have biopsies of her heart to check for rejection every other week right now, but that will lessen in frequency over time. She is on 13 medication, but that will lessen over time as well. She is such an energetic, playful, happy little girl. Aside from the considerable scarring, you would never ever guess what she has been through. She is my hero!! If it had happened to me I'd probably still be in bed! Greg and I love Gabby with everything we've got and thank God everyday that she is with us. I hope her story can help raise awareness for the importance of organ donation - someone's angel saved my little girl's life!!
We are now back in Dallas with our family. Gabby is now 6 months post transplant and is remarkable. She is doing so well you would never know to look at her she had a heart transplant, or that we were so close to losing her just 6 months ago. She is truly a miracle.
If you would like to read more about Gabby's journey, you can go to www.carepages.com Her page is GabbyIezzi
If you would like to learn more about Cardiomyopathy, a VERY under-researched and under-funded disease, go to www.childrenscardiomyopathy.org
If you would like to make a donation or volunteer to help with fundraisers for Gabby's cause, go to www.aheartforgabbyrose.com
If you would like to learn more about organ donation to save lives and to become an organ donor, go to www.donatelife.net
If you would like to shop online and donate to Gabby's cause click on this link
www.igive.com/html/refer.cfm?memberid=506313&causeid=41282
Who I'd like to meet: Other families with children affected by heart disease, dialated cardiomyopathy, parents of heart transplant recipients, other stay at home moms and caregivers, those interested in raising awareness.
How are you doing?? I've been thinking about you guys!! Don't forget that I will be in Houston on March 29, if you guys will be in Houston too then we will get together!!
Hi Lara! Did you get my invitation for Shannon's baby shower?? Are you going to be able to make it? Hope so! You should bring Gabby, to play with Hannah!
Hi, Thanks for accepting my friend request. My daughter Graci had Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Her second Open-Heart Surgery(out of 3) was to fix that. They had to go in and thin out her thickened heart muscle, so her heart could have better function. I would love to chat with you sometime.
Here's hoping that Gabby Rose has many many healthy years ahead of her!!! (If I had some champagne, I'd toast to her!) Cardiomyopathy is not a fun disease to have (I've been dealing with it for 15 years now without a transplant!), but thanks to God and the advances in heart medicine & transplants, little people & big can function pretty well in this hurried world of ours!
May 2008 be a great year for Gabby as well as your whole family!
