Baby Abram Hurst Medical Relief Fund

We created this gofundme to help the Hurst Family with medical and travel expenses for their two year old son, Abram. They are at Boston Children’s Hospital for his first heart surgery. He will need another, more complex open heart surgery in the near future. 

Abram was born with Congentically Corrected Transposition of The Great Arteries (CCTGA), which is a rare heart defect where the lower half of his heart is reversed. His right ventricle is pumping oxygen to his body, but it was designed to only pump to the lungs.  Over time it will most likely decline.  It is already showing some signs that it is struggling as he has a leaky valve.

They are in Boston  for a surgery called a PA Banding  where they place a band around his pulmonary artery to build pressure in his left ventricle. The pressure needs to be just right and then in 6 months to a year he will have a complex, open heart surgery called a Double Switch, where they will switch the main arteries to the correct ventricles. Then the ventricles will be doing what they were designed to do.  

Along with needing these surgeries, he will need an ablation sometime soon. He has an arrhythmia called Wolff-Parkinson-White-Syndrome. An ablation will hopefully take care of the arrhythmia and will allow him to be off of his meds.

Any and all help will be much appreciated as they continue on this journey.