West Virginia Administrative Assistant Katie Hanlon has many
passions and past times, one of which is photography. She is well known in the Bridgeport area for
her talent as a photographer and is often asked to snap just a few pictures of
friends’ children for their Christmas card.
For the second year, Katie turned her talent into a gift for a family in
need.
Katie’s cousin Tori, who is just a few weeks older than
Katie’s daughter Charlie, was born with biliary atresia. Biliary
atresia is a life-threatening condition that affects only 1 in 18,000 infants
in which the bile ducts inside or outside the liver do not have normal
openings. This summer Tori had to
undergo not one but TWO liver transplants!
Her mother had to quit her job to care for Tori, and Katie says the
family has “basically been living in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for
months.”
Hitting so close to home,
Katie imagined what the mounting bills must be like for Tori’s family and
decided to do something about it by collecting donations at her annual photo
shoot. Katie set aside time on Saturday,
October 26th to photograph friends and collected $1,810 for her cousin. She also had an assistant shooting video and sent
the video to Tori as an early Christmas present. What a wonderful use of your talent, Katie!
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Tori lives with her parents Andrea
and Bill King and older sister Ella in Charleston, WV. If you would
like to read about Tori, follow this Facebook link or copy and paste to your
browser: https://www.facebook.com/torisliver. Contact Katie Hanlon at khanlon@abartaenergy.com if you
would like to contribute to the Tori King Transplant Fund.
