Featured CDH International’s Nebraska Amassador is Taylor Jarecki Steffensmeier. Taylor is a CDH Survivor.
Taylor was born and raised in Nebraska. She is a part time float RN at her local hospital and full time mom and wife. Taylor and her husband have been blessed with two healthy kids, a daughter Kylar and son Kayden.
Taylor was born in a rural hospital with undiagnosed LCDH in 1991. She was transferred immediately to UNMC in Omaha. Taylor was given a 20% chance of survival, she was on ECMO for 5 days had her first repair while on ECMO. She has had a total of 10 surgeries with 5 of them being diaphragm repairs (3 of the repairs at UNMC in Omaha and 2 of the repairs at Children’s Hospital). Growing up Taylor lived a normal childhood, she played softball from t-ball through her senior year of high school. She was a 20 year old who just got accepted into Nursing school and met her husband when she heard the word reherniated for the 4th time, it was a major repair but it didn’t stop her from graduating with her BSN on time, getting married and carrying two of her own children.
