{"id":33283,"date":"2021-04-07T16:56:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T21:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=33283"},"modified":"2021-06-09T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T13:35:10","slug":"gift-of-life-patient-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2021\/04\/07\/gift-of-life-patient-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"After COVID-19 Delay, Little Traver Prepares for Heart Surgery Journey!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes!\u00a0 We have a new surgery update to share about Traver!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Traver-Gift-Of-Life-Patient-Uganda-Update.jpg\" alt=\"Gift of Life Patient Update: Traver From Uganda\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As you might remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In January, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2021\/01\/07\/traver-gift-of-life\/\">HeartValveSurgery.com community sponsored the much-needed heart surgery of Traver<\/a>, a courageous 2-year old boy from Uganda who suffers from a very complex cardiac condition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Robyn Sends Traver a Care Package During COVID-19 Delay<\/h2>\n<p>Unfortunately, the global COVID-19 pandemic delayed Traver&#8217;s travel from Uganda to Israel (where the procedure will be performed).<\/p>\n<p>During the delay&#8230; To show our love and support for Traver and his family, Robyn (my wife) sent a care package of fun toys and clothes from Los Angeles to the Kyankuta Village in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33289 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Robyn-with-Travers-Care-Package.jpg\" alt=\"Robyn Traver's Care Package\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/>Robyn (My Wife) Sends a Care Package to Traver<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some wonderful pictures that were sent to us from Sunday John Bosco, an extraordinary person who helped start Open Heart POBIC Uganda, a non-profit organization that helps children with cardiac disorders.\u00a0 Sunday John Bosco brought the care package to Traver&#8217;s village from Fort Potral, Uganda. So you know, Open Heart POBIC Uganda received its full NGO status in 2019. Congratulations Sunday John Bosco!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33290 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/Traver-Gets-Care-Package-Sunday-John-Bosco.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday John Bosco Delivers Traver's Care Package\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" \/>Sunday John Bosco (Open Heart POBIC Uganda) Delivers Care Package to Traver!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33288 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/traver-gift-package.jpg\" alt=\"Traver's Care Package Before Heart Surgery\" width=\"700\" height=\"464\" \/>Toys for Traver!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33286 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/traver-heartvalesurgery.com-t-shire.jpg\" alt=\"Traver Wearing HeartValveSurgery.com T-Shirt\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/>Traver Makes Our Community Proud Wearing an HVS T-Shirt!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33301\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/traver-mickey-mouse-smiling-brother.jpg\" alt=\"Traver Playing With Mickey Mouse\" width=\"600\" height=\"507\" \/><br \/>\nTraver Plays With His New Mickey Mouse &amp; Hot Wheels!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Wooo-Whoo! Traver Prepares to Travel for Heart Surgery!<\/h2>\n<p>And now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For the best news yet!!!<\/p>\n<p>I am excited to share that Traver is now preparing to travel from Uganda to Israel for his upcoming procedure!!!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right!!!<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the team led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.giftoflifeinternational.org\/\">Gift of Life International<\/a> has made all of the logistical arrangements for Traver&#8217;s travel and stay in Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Great job to Rob Raylman, the CEO of Gift of Life International, and Sunday John Bosco for their non-stop management of Traver&#8217;s surgery given all the challenges of COVID-19!!!<\/p>\n<p>As you probably guessed, I will keep you updated as I learn more about Traver&#8217;s upcoming surgery.\u00a0 To get the latest updates about Traver, you can subscribe to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/subscribe-adams-blog.php\">free heart surgery email newsletter at this link<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Traver!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33332,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33283\/revisions\/33332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}