I want to express my heartfelt thanks for taking a moment to visit my fundraising page.

If you are here, that means you know Nicole and I are grandparents to our angel congenital heart disease(CHD) grandson, Sutton Jay Harrington. Did you know that 1 out of 100 babies is born with a CHD? Sutton’s specific diagnosis is about 1 out of 10,000 babies. Sutton had double outlet right ventricle with d-malposed great arteries with pulmonary stenosis. This means that he had both major arteries (pulmonary and aortic) coming off the right ventricle with a small left ventricle (hypoplastic left heart syndrome) with restricted blood flow to the lungs. 

Before Sutton, we have heard of CHD’s but it has never impacted our family directly. Now, we are advocates for helping to raise awareness and funds to support research so that one day no one will have to know the pain of saying goodbye to a family member. The Children’s Heart Foundation takes donations and does just that. Their mission is “To advance the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of congenital heart defects (CHDs) by funding the most promising research.” All of their donations go directly to congenital heart defect research.

We hope that our friends and family will join us to walk in honor Sutton in the Rochester event on August 17th, 2024. It is located at Rochester Municipal Park (400 6th St, Rochester, MI 48307). 

Please reach out if you have any questions! We hope to see you all there!