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A micropreemie launches crowd funding campaign at 11 years old
1888 Press Release Born so early and with obstacles, Brianna Maria has overcome the odds. Today she is a bright child who wants to share her first creation and what she deems as the different elements of her dynamic personality, the "Heartlets".
New York, NY Brianna's story is a story of overcoming adversity. She was born 3 months early a micropreemie at 25 weeks gestation weighing approximately 1 pound. At birth the Doctors said she only had a 25 % chance of survival. The Doctors told her parents that if she did survive there was a good chance she could have physical or mental issues. Her parents never thought she would go on to be as creative and intelligent as she is today. Her parents spent 99 excruciating days in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) with Brianna willing her to survive, willing her to fight through the life threatening surgeries. Brianna Maria had to undergo two life threatening surgeries in the first month of her delicate life. One for her heart, of which she has a scar that she wears as a badge of honor, and another surgery for her eyes that helped prevent her from going blind. Her parents talked to her, they read to her and they spent countless hours sitting beside her incubator. They spent the first 8 years of her life in and out of hospitals fighting viruses and multiple bouts of pneumonia. Today she is their miracle child and has beaten the odds by overcoming asthma and catching up physically, emotionally and intellectually. Brianna Maria is now a healthy and thriving 11 year old who is also the driving creative force behind her family business EscobarWorks. Her Father states, "I never wanted to make her fight a part of the business. I feared people would think that it was just a marketing ploy but her story is one of incredible resolve and should be shared". As ...