The Reason For Our BHF Fundraiser

This is Taylor Corrigan my daughter, the one as a parent I’m programmed to protect only I couldn’t protect her from a lifetime of Heart Disease. These photos will shock and probably sadden you but this is the reality for someone who lives with this disease every day. From the Southside of Edinburgh Taylor is a real 22 year old young woman just like any other with real wants, hopes and dreams, only most of her dreams will never come true.  Like joining the Police, something she has always wanted to do, and all because she was born with her heart broken.  That’s what happens to my heart every time she doesn’t reach one of her goals.  Just because her heart is faulty doesn’t mean that her soul isn’t big enough for 2 people.  She has faced such hard times in her young life surgeries, procedures, illness, a stroke, brain damage, seizures, being partially paralysed and unable to walk until she was three years old.  She has never been able to keep up with everyone her age growing up but this never stopped her from using her imagination for writing and drawing and entertaining herself at home.

So she can’t run, but she can walk!  She can’t sleep, so she writes.  She’s suffered a stroke, yet she graduated Psychology.  And against all odds she’s survived……… She’s survived because she’s Taylor!

This month she will go through further Open Heart Surgery which will hopefully let her have a better quality of life for at least the next ten years, then……..who knows maybe she will have her own place……be a Mother……..or a writer ……..she could be a millionaire……. Or even FREE of this disease with a new heart……you never know what research will find and that’s down to people, real people like you helping real people like Taylor live a little while longer!!

Please donate anything you can and help us raise some money for The British Heart Foundation.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

Taylors Mum Sharon McNamara, her sister Nicole Corrigan and from Taylor herself  J

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And we can also collect at some point in April.