I'm A Survivor

I am a CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE survivor! I was born with 3 holes in my heart (2 ventricular septal defects and 1 atrial septal defect). I had a Pulmonary Artery Banding (a surgery that was ruled unsafe and no longer performed) at 6 WEEKS old and open heart surgery at 1 year old. February 7-14 is CHD Awareness week but I'm going to go most of February with this new profile pic and cover. Congenital Heart Defects affect 1 in 100 newborns- which translates to about 40,000 babies born each year! Let's spread awareness and never forget the babies that have been taken from us way too soon.