more about "The Girl with the Broken Heart", posted with vodpodIf you can't see the video, click here to watch on the website.I normally don't like doing this (posting an entire article from a newspaper), but this seems too important for me to summarize. It will cut off mid article, so click the read more. And donate, if you can. Spread the word around. And have a Merry Christmas.A teen girl's broken heartSara PerkinsDecember 13, 2008 - 11:47PMLA VICTORIA - Adriana Garcia will not live to see 20 without a significant amount of money her family does not have.She will never become the lawyer she wants to be, nor will her cheeks fill out to make the pretty, serious teenager look even more like her pretty, round-faced mother.Instead, the 14-year-old with bright, appraising eyes and a broken heart will deteriorate, sleeping more and rising less, requiring more canned oxygen. She will waste away and she will die.ADRIANAThe Garcias - Adriana, her sisters, Jessica and Mariana, her mother, Mirna, and father, Jorge - moved to a rented trailer east of Rio Grande City two years ago from Ciudad Mier, Tamps. They left behind a stable life for poverty, with a slim hope that in the United States their daughter could get a new heart and lungs, and with them, a future.In Mexico, doctors told them, there was simply no hope she would receive an organ transplant to replace the damaged heart with which she was born.It's a Friday afternoon and at the table in the family's tidy kitchen, Adriana is struggling through a series of pre-algebra problems under the watchful eye of teacher Paul Cho. Her mother struggles to keep Mariana, 2, quiet while her sister studies.When Cho asks her a question she cannot answer easily or punch into her calculator, Adriana's hand strays to the raised scar on her chest.In January, doctors at Driscoll Children's Hospital operated on her heart. She has another scar at the base of her rib cage, evidence of a stopgap attempt to keep the organ working for a while longer, an emergency measure that sent he