Fundraiser for Lily

Emily and I have started an online fundraiser to help raise money and awareness on Congenital Heart Defects in children in honor of our daughter Lily who recently passed away shortly after birth from a CHD. We are hoping that by raising money to fund research on Congenital Heart Defects, our efforts might some day save the life of another child. After going through what we have gone through and are still going through, we hope that no other parent will have to loose their child. Please visit the link below to go to Lily's online fundraising page. Please spread the word to everyone who might be interested in helping. We know that times are tough right now but even if you can only give $5, we would appreciate it greatly. Please help us spread the word on this very important cause.

Thanks for your support!

http://tchin.kintera.org/lilyonderko?faf=1&e=1526617148

Thank you for your support

I am not sure if anyone is still checking this blog or not, but if so, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all of your support. It has been extremely hard for Emily, myself, and our family to deal with the loss of Lily. I don't think it is something that we will ever get over but we are trying to find a way to continue on with life. We really want to do that for Lily. Emily and I feel that we need to live the rest of our lives in honor of Lily and experience all the great things in life that she never got a chance to do. We have been overwhelmed by the amount of support that we have received. All of the cards, the flowers, the phone calls......everything has been amazing. It's amazing how many lives our little girl has touched in such a short time. Life is still difficult right now for us but we are doing our best to stay positive. Sometimes its hard to find the positives in life right now but that doesn't mean we should stop looking. Lily changed our lives in a way I don't think we have fully grasped yet. In some way she has brought us closer to our family and friends. The support we have received from everyone has kept us going when we thought we couldn't. We ask that you continue to pray for our daughter Lily and keep her in your thoughts. Many of you found out about this blog for Lily after her birth. I ask you to please go back and read her story from the first blog posting up to this posting. Her birth and death are not her complete story. We felt that Lily's story truley began many months ago when we found out she was, our Lily. (The first posting was in September 2007) If you have passed this blog on to someone else to read, encourage them to read her entire story as well. It wouldn't make sense to open a new book and start reading it from the last chapter. You need to know what happened at the beginning to understand the end.

Thanks again to everyone for your love and support.