Amazing Grace!
If you are not familiar with the story of little Sydney, please read these previous posts:  Pray for Sydney, Update, “God will give me strength…”, Nurse Angels, “I can’t kiss her enough”, “He will help me heal…”, Three Minutes of Wonderful, Happy six months…, Sydney is in a better place.  As you [...]

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Karen on October 23rd, 2009

Last week, Bryan and I took Nathan to Children’s Hospital in New Orleans for his annual checkup.  His heart surgery to correct Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return, a problem connected to his Scimitar Syndrome, occurred about three years ago.  The first year after surgery, appointments were a few months apart, but he has done well, [...]

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Karen on September 30th, 2009

Traci Doland reports that her son, Broady, had a CT scan today in preparation for heart surgery.  Broady has scimitar syndrome, which involves several problems including partial anomalous pulmonary venous return, hypoplasia of the right lung and right lower lobe sequestration.
“We meet with the surgeons on October 26th,” says Traci.  “They have us for November [...]

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Karen on September 21st, 2009

Traci Doland keeps me updated on her son, Broady.  She recently set up a CaringBridge page to keep friends and family informed about treatments and appointments.  She writes:

Broady was diagonsed with Scimitar Syndrome when he was a week old in the NICU @ Maggie Hospital. He has hypoplasia of the right lung, right lower [...]

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Sylvie Stephens continues to drink in every day God gives her with Sydney:
I thank God for another day that I feel alive and positive and full of joy, and I have no distractions to keep me from celebrating and enjoying Sydney.  I could be sobbing in a corner rocking back and forth, but instead I [...]

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