Name: Zachary Age: 8 State: OH At some point during Zachary’s infancy, his birth father picked him up and shook him, leaving him with shaken baby syndrome and hydrocephalus. Shaken baby syndrome causes many different types of injuries which range from nonspecific to obviously head trauma-related that last throughout the child’s life. This syndrome most [...]
Name: Zachary Age: 5 State: AR Zachary is a vivacious little guy who loves adventure. Even at the young age of five, he is already quite a fisherman and one of his favorite pastimes is going four-wheeling. He’s a big fan of the monster truck, Gravedigger, and he enjoys playing baseball and watching football on [...]
Name: Zachary Age: 10 State: IN At the age of two, Zach was diagnosed with ataxia telangiectasia, which is a rare neurodegenerative disease. Because of this, Zach is confined to a motorized wheelchair for moving long distances and must use a special walker for short distances at home. He is having trouble with the muscles [...]
Name: Trisha Age: 16 State: OH In the sixth grade, Trisha was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. It was then that her doctors determined that her kidneys were not completely formed before birth. Due to her condition, she is on a daily medication regimen to reduce the chances of her needing dialysis, even though she [...]
Name: Sirena Age: 8 State: NE In February of 2005, Sirena was diagnosed with epilepsy. She suffers daily seizures and requires constant supervision. In addition, doctors have discovered that she has a tumor growing toward her brain stem. Sirena will need to have brain surgery to remove the tumor but her doctors must get her [...]
Name: Shanice Age: 11 State: TX When Shanice was born, she was not allowed to leave the hospital for her first six months of life and was in the ICU unit for four of those months. For her whole first year, the tiny baby had to use oxygen to keep her going. At two years [...]
Name: Savannah Age: 10 State: NE Savannah, a 9-year-old little girl, suffers from Cystic Fibrosis. This illness results in the clogging of the lungs and the pancreas, causing breathing problems and the inability of the pancreas to produce vital enzymes for digestion. Savannah was diagnosed at just 6 months of age, and must use a [...]
Name: Sasha Age: 13 State: MD Sasha was born with sickle cell disease, a disease in which the red blood cells created in the bone marrow are crescent shaped and have a difficult time passing through the body’s blood vessels to reach the body’s tissues. Those suffering with this disease experience severe episodes of pain [...]
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