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Woodrow Caughorn’s Story

Woodrow was just born April 8, 2023 At 2 months old he was diagnosed with an Hemangioma in his airway right behind his vocal box. We went to the ER on June 15th due do him having hard labored breathes while in the ER his O2 was dropping going into the low 70’s. No breathing treatments would work due to it being his upper airway. That day they diagnosed him with croup and the rhinovirus. We stayed in the PICU for two days and in a normal room for a night. Doctors told us to follow up with an ENT in two weeks. When we saw the ENT on July 3rd we had a scope ran to look at his airway. They found an obstruction in his airway. We were told he is going to have surgery in seven days or less that he had a 70% blockage. When we went in on July 6th for surgery they found out it was a hemangioma that has grown and is blocking 95% of his airway. He came out of surgery on a ventilator and sedated. Stay on the ventilator for 2 days. The doctors tried to remove it. He was able to last about 5 hours without it. When he was off he was having a hard time breathing and could not be settled down. Was put back on the ventilator and sedated for 7 more days. Was taken off the ventilator on Friday July 14th. That was done in the operating room so they could monitor him closely and while he was under sedation the ENT ran the scope again to look at his airway to see if the hemangioma has shrunk any. They did see the medicine has been working and it had shrank some. Friday night once he came out of the operating room he was irritable some and would calm down for a little bit and that lasted all night. Saturday morning he was having a hard time breathing and his lips turned blue. They put him on high flow oxygen through his nose and through a mask. They started to run all kinds of test for infection, x rays to look at his lungs, an echo for his heart. They found that his heart was not pumping as hard as it should. So the medication to cure the Hemangioma was causing him more problems with his heart and lungs. They took him off of the medicine and now they are trying to figure out how to cure the hemangioma without affecting his heart and lungs. He has been having Echos daily to monitor his heart function. He has had to have two blood transfusions along the way. Woodrow is being seen by a pediatric ENT pediatric cardiologists a hematologist and being monitored closely in the PICU. We are still in the pediatric ICU at Greenville Memorial Hospital. Please continue to pray for Woodrow.

Both Eric and Angel are out of work obviously, but Angel had exhausted all of her paid time off when Woodrow was born so she is not getting paid. Right now they are both rotating time at the hospital, and time at home with their 2 year old daughter, Erin, to try keep things as normal for her as they possibly can. Most of Woodrow’s treatment and care is with a specialist, and a lot of it they are required to pay upfront.

100% donated is going directly to Eric and Angel!

Thank you and please continue to pray for the Caughorn family!