Addison was born in 2008 with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) with Shone’s complex. This was unknown to her parents until she was emergently transported from her home in Yuma to Phoenix, Arizona, during her first week of life. Addie had five open heart surgeries and overcame two runs on ECMO, all before age five. Addie’s life was far too short, and her story is not perfect, but it is a life she made perfect for herself and everyone around her.

Addie represents perseverance, as her life was full of many dreams, including taking a best friend’s trip to Paris with her mom when she turned fifteen, getting a dolphin tattoo on her eighteenth birthday, eventually settling down, and having a wedding with pink cupcakes. For Addie, life was a journey, and she saw her life as an adventure, squeezing every drop of love and fun she could from it. Addie’s legacy carries on through Addie Packs.