Chrissy Snider

LifeBanc – Gift of Life Walk & Run

July 12, 2010

Hey Everyone! This year Zoe and I will be participating in the Gift of Life Walk & Run (we will be walking 😉 ) for LifeBanc. LifeBanc is a nonprofit organization from Northeast Ohio that works to heal and save lives through organ and tissue donation. We’ve started a team for the event: Team Zoe’s Heart (naturally)! Here…

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Shop Till You Drop

June 20, 2010

Zoe’s dance recital was yesterday. The name of the recital was Shop Till You Drop and it was such a great show. All these girls (and a few boys) worked so hard the last few months and their hard work definitely paid off. Everyone did so wonderful. Zoe did wonderful, despite her losing a shoe…

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Site changes

May 12, 2010

I’ve known for awhile now that zoesheart.com has a stalker, and I don’t mean the kind who hangs out and reads because they genuinely care but never comments. I’m ok with that kind of stalker, but that’s not what we have here. What we have here is someone who doesn’t care about Zoe or her…

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I apologize for the delay….

May 11, 2010

Zoe had her biopsy on May 3rd. Her results were double 0’s again so that’sgood news. Despite the good results our recent trip to the clinic was a comedy of errors and Zoe and I are now accomplished “waiters” (and I don’t mean restaurant type waiters). Zoe wasn’t first on the schedule so we didn’t have…

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Zoe’s Heart began the day our world changed. My daughter, Zoe, received a heart transplant at just six years old. Six. In the span of childhood milestones and bedtime stories, we learned words like “transplant,” “rejection,” “ICU,” and “donor family.” We learned what it means to wait. To hope. To live in the in-between. This blog is our way of sharing the journey — the beautiful, the terrifying, the exhausting, and the miraculous. Zoe’s Heart exists for two reasons: To keep our family and friends updated as we walk this road. And to advocate fiercely for organ donation — because someone else’s yes saved my daughter’s life. This space is raw. It’s honest. It doesn’t pretend the hard parts don’t exist. But it also refuses to ignore the hope. We believe in celebrating progress, honoring the gift of life, and speaking openly about what transplant families experience behind hospital doors. Zoe is living proof that generosity changes everything. Thank you for being here. Thank you for following her journey. And if you ever find yourself wondering whether organ donation matters — it does. It saved our girl. Welcome to Zoe’s Heart.