The Short family's struggles and triumphs were documented in local and national news stories. Megan Short also described her journey in blog posts for a congenital heart defect family support group, likening the experience to post-traumatic stress disorder. At 6 days old she received a life-saving heart transplant, followed by daily doses of a specialty drug to keep her body from rejecting the transplanted heart. The most recent one, a New York Times article in 2015, described the family's difficulty navigating specialty pharmacies to obtain Willow's medication. I became more confident with the medical aspect of caring for her, but the trauma is something that never goes away."

Source: CNN August 08, 2016 01:52 UTC