Karen on August 22nd, 2011

This week, Veronica Janus releases her book, Abundantly More: A Mother Clings to God as Her Infant Clings to Life. “Abundantly More shares my journey of hope and healing,” writes Janus, “and it also offers practical knowledge on how to navigate life in a pediatric ICU.”
I’m not aware of many memoirs written about a family’s [...]

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Karen on April 12th, 2011

In August of 2009, I connected with a lovely mother, Sylvie Stephens, through my Nathan’s Prayer website.  Her baby daughter, Sydney, was a patient at Children’s Hospital in Minnesota.  Sylvie and I exchanged long emails over a period of time as we hoped and prayed for Sydney to be healed as she battled a congenital [...]

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Karen on March 23rd, 2011

I received a lovely letter recently from Taylor Lewis, mom of an adorable toddler named Riley Rae.  She stumbled across Nathan’s Prayer and wrote that her daughter was also born with congenital heart defects.  Riley Rae has double inlet, single left ventricle with transposition of great vessels, and pulmonary valve artesia.  She had heart surgery [...]

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Karen on August 31st, 2010

About mid-June, I received an email from Abby Scklarek that began:  “I just read the article in Parents Magazine and I knew I had to get in touch with you…”  It turns out Abby has a one-year-old son, Colin, who also has scimitar syndrome.  She shared with me that he would need heart surgery sometime [...]

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Karen on August 28th, 2010

Angie from Yukon, Oklahoma writes:
My daughter just went in on Thursday August 26, 2010 to have the catherization surgery to close her ASD but when they got in they found out that it wasn’t the kind that could be closed that way.  They also found that she had the Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return along [...]

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