Three months before Kellie and Paula Tasto got married, Kellie learned that she had pulmonary hypertension (PH). She was critically ill with severe right heart failure, and she was devastated to learn that PH would affect their plans to start a family. “I knew there was a greater risk of me or the baby
Skye Ellison will never forget the day she found out she and her husband and I were going to have a baby. Their fertility clinic called to let them know their surrogate’s pregnancy test had come back positive. After almost a lifetime of hearing, “You won’t be able to have children,” Skye felt like she had achieved the impossible.
“Processing my diagnosis alone in the NICU was rough. I didn’t really understand the gravity of it all. It didn’t feel real.” Amy Dolan, 30, lives in western Rhode Island with her husband and four children, Gehrig, Eila, Finley and Theodore. Before her pulmonary hypertension diagnosis, she worked in administration for an
Chelsea Kennedy, 27, has been living with pulmonary hypertension (PH) since 2018. She lives with her five children, husband and three dogs in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She is studying cardiovascular technology, which she became interested in after her PH diagnosis.
