Geaux Health & Fitness Magazine June 2014 | Page 41

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A Makeover to Remember

by Meagan Williams

Shana Robinson-Pete is the recipient for this edition’s Geaux Health and Fitness Makeover. The 29
year-old stay at home mom of three has been through more in a few years than most in an entire
lifetime. With her husband, sister, mother, and mother in law by her side, there’s nothing that
Pete can’t overcome. Raised in Bunkie, La, Shana lost her father during her junior year in high
school.
After completing high school and attending Grambling State University as a business major
for one year, her mother suffered from a massive stroke. She knew that despite wanting to
stay in Grambling, she needed to return home to Bunkie to take care of her mother. Once
Shana found steady ground, she enrolled into cosmetology school where she could put
her many hidden talents to use. After finding out that she was pregnant well, that
changed things.
Douglas Jr. [DJ] her first-born was diagnosed with Down Syndrome a week after
he was born. After cardiologists examined DJ’s heart, all they
could find was a small heart murmur of which the family was
informed that there was nothing to worry about. Showing no
additional signs, one month later, her only son at the time,
went into congestive heart failure due to a missed diagnosis.
At three months old, DJ had heart surgery subsequently
following the discovery of three ho