Easterseals Fashion Event lets clients shine on stage

Haven McCormack and her parents, John and Deana, have raised money for Easterseals Arkansas on several occasions. They are looking forward to the Easterseals Fashion Event, set for April 2.

For Deana McCormack and her daughter, Haven, Easterseals Arkansas has been a part of life since 2007.

Haven, a high school senior, was born with a congenital heart defect, pulmonary stenosis. She was rushed to Arkansas Children’s Hospital for care shortly after birth.

“After her second surgery, when she was 12 days old, she coded, and they did CPR on her for 58 minutes,” Deana says. “Because of that lack of oxygen to her brain it caused some damage, cerebral palsy.”

Haven started speech, occupational therapy and physical therapy at Easterseals when she was 14 months old to help with speech and gross and fine motor skill delays.

“She’s been going ever since,” Deana says. “Some years she had up to seven or eight hours of therapy in a week.”