Team Travis

Monday, October 23, 2023

Our Annual Team Travis dinner at the Ronald McDonald House was a huge success. Yummy food, tons of house guests (maybe the most ever), crafts, books, and lots of loving energy. Thank you to everyone who donated and helped out! It’s always so hard, but we enjoy being able to share the joy of our little man. #14. #TeamTravis #HeWasHere

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Team Travis Dinner - Giving back

THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT ONLY!

Gift cards/cash: will be used at Costco to purchase food for the annual dinner. All denominations are appreciated.

Books: Books just need to be in my hands by 10/22/19 so that I can bring them to Rady's the following day.

We are collecting NEW books in memory of Travis on his 10th birthday (10/23/19). The books will be given to the guests at the Ronald McDonald House the evening of his annual birthday dinner. Additional books will either be donated to the house for give aways OR dropped off on the CICU/PICU floors.

Please ask around and repost this on your walls. Books and gift cards can be sent directly to our house (listed above). Or, contact Roger or myself to arrange a drop off. E-mail is rogerd56@yahoo.com

****PLEASE NOTE: We are collecting NEW books only. The books are going into the rooms and families of fragile patients, so we have to have things germ free. Thanks!! *******

Thank you in advance!!!!!

If you would like to make a financial donation, you can do it via paypal link. All money will go towards purchasing food and supplies for Dinner.

Donation to pay for food and supplies for Travis' Dinner

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Celebrated Travis' 9th birthday by serving dinner at Ronald McDonald house. The amount of support from people that were there to serve and help, that donated books or donated costco cards is truly overwhelming. We can never thank people enough for the show of love for our family. #teamtravis

Travis Gary DiCarlo

Travis Gary DiCarlo, first son of Roger and Nicole DiCarlo, was born at San Diego Kaiser Hospital, October 23, 2009 with a Congenital Heart Defect known as Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, or HLHS. The short explanation is that Travis was born with only half of a heart. In order for him to live, a series of three operations were planned.

Due to an infection, Travis had to have an additional open heart surgery to insert pulmonary artery bands on October 29, 2009. He had his Norwood Surgery on November 21, 2009. He was sent home on December 14, 2009 from Rady's Children Hospital of San Diego after spending his first 52 nights of life in the hospital.

After being home for several months, Travis was due to for his next surgery in the plan, the Glenn procedure. But the life of a cardiac kid can change in an instant and life doesn't always go as planned. Due to the anatomy of his heart and some rhythm issues, Travis had what the surgeons called Norwood part 2. They replaced his Sano Shunt with a bigger one, enlarged his pulmonary arteries and installed a pacemaker. This surgery was performed on May 3, 2010. Travis went home on May 17th, 2010.

Around Travis' first birthday in October his cardiologist detected some narrowing in his pulmonary artery and ordered a heart cath. The heart cath showed extensive narrowing in his aorta and his pulmonary artery. On February 17, 2011 Travis had his 4th open heart surgery. He was doing well with recovery until he suddenly went into cardiac arrest on Friday (2/18). After two hours of CPR Travis was placed on ECMO (a heart/lung bypass). Although his heart did begin to beat again on its own, his brain was damaged during the whole ordeal and he lost all brain function. We had to say goodbye to our beautiful boy on Saturday, February 19th. We miss our boy terribly.....