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Firefighters rally to support student with heart defect BY RAECHEL DAWSON rdawson@fedwaymirror.com
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igh school softball player Tatiana Jones almost didn’t participate in a health screening that may have saved her life. But because she did, the 16-year-old became one of
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seven students who were required to see a cardiologist based on results from the Nick of Time Foundation event last year at Decatur High School. Thousands of students in the Federal Way school district were tested. After numerous tests and scans, the Decatur junior would later discover she had a genetic abnormality in her heart called anomalous aortic origin of the coronary artery, commonly known as “AAOCA.” “I feel like God put it in my pathway,” Tatiana said about the health screening. Although rare, Tatiana’s heart problem is a condition where her heart has an artery coming out of the wrong location on the main blood vessel, the aorta. It is the second leading cause of sudden cardiac death in children and young adults who play sports, according to the Children’s Heart Foundation. And in order to continue playing sports, her doctor requires her to have an AED (automated external defibrillator) onsite for every school sporting event, including practices. But AEDs can cost upwards of $1,400 and although every Federal Way school has them, they’re meant to serve more than one student. “It’s getting more and more common that people buy their own AEDs,” said South King Fire and Rescue Capt. Jeff Bellinghausen, noting that every school in the district has an AED on-site thanks to Project Jean. “Every minute earlier
Capt. Jeff Bellinghausen, left, stands with Decatur High School Running Start student Tatiana Jones at Fire Station 62. Bellinghausen holds the station’s AED and is in the process of raising funds to get Tatiana her own personal life-saving device. RAECHEL DAWSON, the Mirror that someone [receives a defibrillator shock], their survival rate increases by 10 percent.” Because of this, Bellinghausen and the South King Firefighters Foundation partnered with Decatur High School in an effort to raise enough money to buy Tatiana her own AED. “She needs it whenever she’s at a school sporting event and … the school has AEDs but she needs it not just when she’s at sporting events, she should have this wherever she goes,” Bellinghausen said, adding that the excess funds from the fundraiser will be donated to the Nick of Time Foundation. Tatiana is currently staying busy playing third base for the Decatur girls varsity fastpitch team. By working together with
school nurse Sue English, Decatur High School Principal David Bower and the Firefighters Foundation, Tatiana’s family set up a gofundme.com account “AED for Tatiana” to help raise money for the life-saving device. “It’s public-private partnerships, such as this one with the schools, the fire department and the Nick of Time Foundation, that provide resources to students and families and the end result is kids are safer,” Bower said. Tatiana has kept active most of her life. When she’s not playing sports in school, the Running Start student lifeguards at the Federal Way Community Center or runs the Saghalie Middle School track with [ more HEART, page 10 ]
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