I’ve directed friends and family to the online version of the Parents magazine article I wrote. It’s true. I’ll confess: I have shamelessly scarfed up all of the issues I could find locally.
In my defense, I wanted a copy for each of my five kids, a copy to frame, and copies to give friends.
So, here [...]
Yesterday, I was in Tuscaloosa for the Southern Christian Writers Conference. While I was listening to one of the writing seminars, my cell phone vibrated. I could see my husband was calling. “How sweet,” I thought. “He’s calling to wish me a Happy Anniversary.”
I quietly answered. “Guess what,” he says. “We just got Parents magazine [...]
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This is one of the best illustrations I have found for explaining PAPVR.
Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return (PAPVR) is a rare congenital heart defect in which blood flow from one or more of the pulmonary veins return to the right atrium instead of to the left atrium. This is a problem because the right atrium [...]
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When Nathan was born, we soon discovered that he had Scimitar Syndrome and would need open heart surgery to correct Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return. It was a frightening time in our lives. Bryan and I were tremendously relieved when surgery in Michigan proved to be successful. End of story? I wish.
About three months later, [...]
Scimitar Syndrome is a rare congenital heart defect characterized by Partial (PAPVR) or Total (TAPVR) Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return. The syndrome gets its name from the curved shape formed by the pulmonary vein. On a chest radiograph, the vein is said to look like a scimitar, a curved sword originating in the Middle East.
The abnormal [...]
