Henry is just like any normal 10-month-old boy. He loves to play and goof off, but Henry has a serious condition.
“He was right at 6-weeks-old. He had an Owlet monitor on his foot, which monitors all heart rate and oxygen on babies, and we were taking a bottle. I had sat him up to see where he kind of was with that and the Owlet went off. It sounded like an ambulance siren going off in my house,” said his mother, Ashley Soileau.
Henry has aplastic anemia, a condition causing him to have low oxygen levels in his blood, which can cause his heart rate to go up. At his age, he has to get blood transfusions every two to three weeks. For now, it’s the only way to keep his heart pumping. Blood donations are essential for Henry.
“Two transfusions to go. We waited for six hours to get a blood match for him. They had to go outside the city to find it because there wasn’t a match available for him,” said Soileau.
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