Karen on February 23rd, 2010

My son, Nathan, is a scimitar syndrome survivor.  Little Aubrey Rose also had scimitar syndrome, but did not survive.  Her family created a charitable foundation in her name.  I received this newsletter from the Aubrey Rose Foundation: Our Mission is to help families caring for children with life-threatening illnesses with our focus being on the [...]

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Karen on February 23rd, 2010

Take a look at the wonderful ways the Aubrey Rose Foundation is helping families with financial needs due to the medical needs of their children: ACCOMPLISHMENTS We are very proud of our accomplishments in our ten years but we know we have our work cut out for us to continue on with helping families. Our [...]

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Karen on February 14th, 2010

A tribute to the fine health care professionals who work to repair little hearts.  Written by Sylvie Stephens. I first came to the PICU after Sydney’s open heart surgery. Sydney was in bed #13.  Jane was her nurse.  Ingrid was the CRN.  There was no need to adjust to the new surroundings.  I was always [...]

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Karen on February 11th, 2010

I received the following message today from Kassandra’s mother: “We got a bit of bad news on Monday…Kassandra is going to have to go thru surgery again.  It is so stressful and frustrating.  She was doing so well, or so I had thought…she has been experiencing all of the signs that she should have been experiencing in the first [...]

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