Look at that smile. 🥹💛

Myla is only 2 years old, yet her little life has already been filled with battles most children could never imagine.

Her fight against a rare and devastating vascular malformation has taken her family from Canada all the way to Italy, searching for a treatment that could give her a chance at a safer, brighter future. 🇨🇦✈️🇮🇹

Many of you may recognize this kind of fight.

We’ve followed little Lily from Louisiana, whose family also traveled to Italy seeking treatment for a severe venous malformation.

We’ve prayed for 7-year-old Ka’Vayah from Amarillo, Texas, whose brain AVM returned after multiple surgeries.

And more recently, we’ve stood behind 15-year-old South Texas athlete Ryan Rodriguez, whose AVM was discovered after a basketball accident.

Now, I want you to meet Myla. 💛

Her mom, Samantha, reached out and shared that Myla has a rare genetic condition called CM-AVM, along with an extremely complex, high-flow AVM affecting the left side of her face and head.

And as Myla has grown, so has the AVM.

According to Samantha, it has brought daily bleeding and severe swelling, affected Myla’s vision, hearing and breathing, damaged her teeth and jaw, interfered with her ability to walk, and placed additional strain on her heart.

All of this before her third birthday. 💔

Her family says specialists in Canada believed intervention carried an extremely high risk of catastrophic bleeding.

But Samantha refused to stop searching.

Through the Vascular Birthmarks Foundation, the family eventually connected with Professor Giacomo Colletti in Italy and learned about a treatment called Modified Electrosclerotherapy, or MEST.

Myla received her first treatment in March, and her family says they finally began to see progress. 🙏

This summer, they returned to Italy for major surgery. Samantha says that during this hospitalization, her little girl endured the surgery and 13 additional procedures because of serious complications.

And somehow… through it all, she still smiles. 🥹💛

“She wakes up from anesthesia after her procedures and still finds a reason to smile,” Samantha told me.

Myla loves yellow, her Grinch stuffed animal, books, bubbles — and most of all, making people laugh. 💛🫧📚

Her journey isn’t over. She will need more treatments as she grows, and Samantha says their application for out-of-country healthcare funding was denied.

For now, her family is relying on their own resources and the kindness of others to help them continue traveling to Italy for the care Myla needs.

And Samantha has a message for every parent who may be facing an impossible diagnosis:

“Never stop looking for an answer. Get a second opinion. Get ten opinions if you need to.”

Lily. Ka’Vayah. Ryan. And now Myla.

Different children. Different battles. But one thing connects them all — families who refuse to stop fighting for their children. ❤️

So please, let’s surround this precious little girl with the same love, prayers and hope you’ve shown so many others.

What would you want Myla’s mom to know? 💛🙏

Source: Go Fund Me