Support for the Levesque family

I've started this fundraiser in hopes of helping relieve some of the financial burden for my brother Alex and his family. What was supposed to be a joy filled time has become the hardest moment in their lives. Instead of preparing a nursery they are preparing to say goodbye to their beautiful baby boy. They've had a lot of unexpected medical appointments and will continue to miss work during their healing and grieving process. I'm hoping we can take some of the financial stress away so this young family has one less thing to worry about during this difficult time.

Sarah's Message:

As some of you know and a lot of you don’t know.. Alex and I are expecting our 4th baby in November. What is supposed to be a happy and exciting time has unfortunately turned into a nightmare and devastating time for our family. . At our 20 week anatomy ultrasound we found out we were having a baby BOY! We were all so excited to add another little man into our lives.. a few days later I was called into my drs office to discuss the results of my ultrasound. Fear and worry I had to live with for 4 days before I could actually get in to see him. Upon seeing my family dr he informed me that they had found an abnormality with the babies heart, but not to stress to much it could just be they couldn’t get a clear imagine, so I was referred off to a fetal cardiologist in Brampton where I had a fetal echocardiogram. This is where my heart broke into a million pieces… being told that my unborn son has a severe heart condition. two major ones and a minor one. From here I was referred off to sick kids in Toronto to have a second opinion and another fetal echocardiogram done. By this appointment I have been numb, lost, angry and so heartbroken with all of the unknown. The following week I was seen by sick kids, who also confirmed the same findings. Again being hit with this devastating news all the emotions flooded us again. Our son has a condition where his right chamber is not there (half the heart missing), double inlet left ventricles and an extremely narrow aorta. We spoke with sick kids about everything you could imagine, and unfortunately only 1 of these issues can possibly be fixed with multiple surgeries. We need two chambers to survive and this cannot be fixed. We were then sent to Mount Sinai hospital to their special pregnancy program where I also went through more testing and scans, to confirm the findings were true. Our baby boy would live most of his life in the hospital, medications, possible other complications could also come from this and the surgeries are not guaranteed with his other heart conditions. Our baby boy would not have a quality of life at all or live a normal life and us as parents do not believe that anyone should have to live a life like that. We also have to think about our other 3 children and how their lives would be impacted. We have been left with two options.. options NO parent should ever have to face. I will be 25 weeks on Monday… and as of Wednesday we will be having our baby boy at mount Sinai hospital in Toronto, and be left empty and heartbroken. I didn’t put this post out as a sympathy post, I put it out for 2 reasons, 1 if you happen to see me you aren’t left wondering where my belly went and us having to explain to every person we see and constantly bring the heart break up, and 2 to raise awareness.. how important an anatomy scan is, it’s not just all the excitement of finding out the gender it’s ensuring you are growing a healthy baby.