Living a Handmade Life

If you read my other blogs you know I was born with Hypoplastic Right Heart Syndrome  which mean I  have the right side of my heart missing. This week is CHD Awareness week. 

Heart defects are the most common birth
defect. About one in 120 babies are born
with some kind of heart defect.

Heart defects are about three times more
common than muscular dystrophy and
childhood cancer and about 40 times more
common than cystic fibrosis.

There are about one million adults and
800,000 children living with congenital heart
defects in the United States. Thanks to
increases in survival, the number of adults
rises by 5% a year.

Nearly twice as many children die from Congenital Heart Defects in the United States each year as from all forms of childhood cancers combined, yet funding for pediatric cancer research is five times higher than funding for CHD.

The American Heart Association directs only $0.30 of every dollar donated toward research. The remainder goes toward administration, education and fundraising efforts. Of the $0.30 that goes toward research only $0.01 goes toward pediatric cardiology for CHD.

This year approximately 4,000 babies will not live to see their first birthday because of Congenital Heart Defects.

Of every dollar the government spends on medical funding only a fraction of a penny is directed toward Congenital Heart Defect research.

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For all those who spread awarenss and fight the battle

Thank you

Teri (Vieiragirl)

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