Brandon Needs A Heart Transplant

This is my beautiful grandson Brandon LaValley, 25, with his Patrick Swayze smile, and he needs your prayers.  I took this picture yesterday in the ICU. He looks strong, but please don’t be fooled by that brave smile. Without a new heart, Brandon will not survive, and we may have only 2 weeks left to find one. His Impella Pump has only two weeks left, his heart too poor for a new pump. Our whole family is brokenhearted and we are ready for a fight!  We’re fighting every day for Brandon’s life and trying to find the strength to keep pushing — to fight a system that feels so unfair. He must get a heart and in order to get a heart a hospital must approve him.  Brigham’s and Women’s Hospital, while providing excellent care of Brandon, their transplant team turned Brandon down from being put on the list!! The doctor said the best they can do is start to wean him off the Impella pump and give him a special IV medication that once he’s off the pump he’ll be discharged to home, b...