![]() “I got Tank because I didn’t know if I’d ever play soccer again, and he really helped cheer me up,” Cidni explained. Her horse Tank is paste to the left sock liner while Nikki - her mother - gets a shout out on the right side. ![]() Peep the laces and you’ll find the names of Tito her parrot, Basco her donkey, Cheez-its, Thober and Jonathan her goats, Carol Bask-hen her chieckn, Copper her dog and SwimShady her fish printed atop the laces. Her Air Force 1 Fontanka is a tribute to her soccer squad as well as all of the animals that she holds close to her heart. ![]() After undergoing a major heart surgery, she was thankfully able to recover and get back on the pitch and compete with her Lebanon Warriors high school team. After being examined by medical experts, she was diagnosed with an anomalous aortic origin of the left coronary artery, meaning that a critical artery that feeds blood to her heart was attached in the wrong place and Cidni’s heart wasn’t receiving enough oxygen. Nike Air Force 1 Fontanka by Cidni O’Brienįour years ago, Cidni O’Brien was playing soccer and started to feel a strange pain in her chest that caused her to be admitted to the hospital. “There’s not a lot you can do to give back to your doctors and nurses after they saved your life, nothing measures to that, and this is just one way that I can give back to the hospital make sure that they know that they’re appreciated and that we love them for everything that they do.” “I never really knew much about being in a hospital until OHSU Doernbecher and now I feel like I have an even bigger family” she says. Additionally, she plasters zebra-like stripes atop the Swooshes and overlays, all of which represent the stretch marks that the steroids created on Zoe’s body and are designed to spell out her name in various sections. On her adventurous Nike Dunk Lows, she nods to the Oregon Ducks – her favorite sports team - by utilizing green and yellow accents. Despite her condition and all of the grueling plasma transfusions, steroids and chemotherapy to keep her stable, her positivity and never-say-die mentality has given her hope and strength. The condition is so rare that only one out of 1.2 million pediatric patients have it. When Zoe was a sophomore in high school, she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that causes severe inflammation of the blood vessels.
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