Logan Grove
No longer able to play baseball or go fishing and hunting with his family, Logan Grove has to be more focused on his health after being diagnosed with a serious heart condition.
At 17, the Toledo High School senior was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy and tachycardia in September of last year. His heart beats too fast and the walls of his heart are thin. He is on medication to control the condition and has continuous doctor’s appointments and tests. He will be on medication the rest of his life, and a heart transplant surgery may be in his future if the medication stops working.
The bills are starting to mount for this Toledo family.
On Saturday, a spaghetti feed and silent auction will be held at Toledo High School from 2 to 6 p.m. Tickets are $8 per person or $5 for children 5 and under. Presale tickets are available at Toledo City Hall or from any of Logan’s relatives. Donations can be made at the Timberland Bank in Toledo.
“We are trying to band together not as a family but as a community to help this family out,” said Josh Hill, Logan’s uncle.
In April, Logan spent 10 days in the intensive care unit at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma after his blood pressure dropped, his mother Angie Grove said. The doctors changed his medication and he has been home since then. He was unable to complete his junior year in the classroom and did his school work from home.
After being diagnosed, the doctors thought they had found the right combination of medicine to allow Logan to play baseball, Grove said. But he had to give it up.
“For me that was heartbreaking,” Hill said about his nephew.
Logan played multiple positions in both the infield and outfield.
Seeing his nephew have to give up baseball was especially hard on Hill because he also played baseball through high school and into college. He said he loved to watch his nephew play and watch him enjoy the sport.
“He is the greatest kid ever,” Grove said about her son.
