The Preeclampsia Foundation has announced that Trashaun Powell and her family are a 2015 Cranford, New Jersey area Promise Walk for Preeclampsia Mission Family.
As this year’s face of preeclampsia, a Powells will lead a Promise Walk debate by pity their constrained birth story, and enlivening teams from all over Northern and Central New Jersey to accommodate or surpass their fundraising goals to account investigate and preparation into a disease.
Trashaun Powell was usually 23-weeks profound in early 2013, when she was diagnosed with HELLP syndrome, a serious various of preeclampsia that affects a liver and blood platelets. She was taken immediately to a complete caring unit. The Powells were dumbfounded to find out that their baby girl, Mia Jane, would have to be delivered immediately to save Powell’s life. Mia was 1 bruise 1 section during delivery, and was whisked divided to quarrel for her possess life in a neonatal complete caring unit.
“The subsequent day, a neonatal complete caring section amicable workman came to revisit me in a complete caring unit, and speedy me to go down to see Mia once again since she wasn’t doing so well,” explained Powell. “I got a possibility to hang my hands inside and she grabbed my fingers.” Later that night, a helper came to let Powell know that Mia took a spin and would not make it by a night.
Mia was usually too tiny to tarry her beforehand birth, tragically flitting divided hours after her birth. Her mother, Trashaun, remained in a complete caring section for dual some-more weeks, going by mixed surgeries and fighting for her possess life.
Powell had listened a small about preeclampsia, though like many women she insincere it was something that would never occur to her. Seeking some-more information about their family’s dire pregnancy experience, a Powells incited to a Preeclampsia Foundation website and a Promise Walk for Preeclampsia as a source of information and to accept support.
The Preeclampsia Foundation is a usually inhabitant nonprofit studious advocacy classification for a hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Through their inhabitant fundraising eventuality The Promise Walk for Preeclampsia, a Preeclampsia Foundation works to grasp a goal to yield studious support and education, lift open awareness, catalyze investigate and urge health caring practices.
Through a Foundation’s educational programs, Trashaun and her family were means to learn some-more about preeclampsia and network with a village of preeclampsia survivors. The Preeclampsia Foundation village gave Trashaun and her father JP a bravery to try again.
Thanks to her preparation about preeclampsia and with additional observant caring by a group of high risk consultant health caring providers, Powell delivered a healthy baby girl, Jasmine in Jul 2014.
“I was really sanctified to have delivered a healthy baby a second time and that we was also okay,” pronounced Powell. “Sharing my story with destiny mothers by a Promise Walk for Preeclampsia gives us a energy of educating ourselves to know a signs and symptoms to demeanour for when faced with Preeclampsia/HELLP. we am anxious to support a Preeclampsia Foundation in a hopes of assisting another lady not have to face HELLP Syndrome alone.”
“This family is a face of a goal for a Cranford-area, NJ Promise Walk village and paint a reason that a Foundation continues operative to assistance save a lives of mothers and their babies,” explained Preeclampsia Foundation Executive Director Eleni Tsigas.
Powell and her family will flog off a festivities and share their moving story during a 2015 Cranford-area New Jersey Promise Walk for Preeclampsia, on Sunday, May 17, during Oak Ridge Park in Clark.
The fifth annual Cranford, NJ area Promise Walk is orderly again this year by mother-daughter travel coordinator team, Stephanie and Marissa Steiner, both preeclampsia survivors.
Local sponsors so distant include: New Jersey Perinatal Associates, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Applebee’s, Investors Bank (Springfield branch), Midway Ice Fuel, Gentle Smile Designs of Jamesburg, and Summit Medical Group.
To join a Powell family, register during www.promisewalk.org/cranford.