by Vivian Solodkin | May 20, 2022 | Meet The Families
Alan and Adrian Jr. were born at 27 weeks, weighing only 2 pounds, and were in the NICU since January. They were born without fully developed lungs and were in respiratory distress. They used a neonatal tube for feeding while also learning to use a bottle. Doctors...
by Vivian Solodkin | Apr 12, 2022 | Meet The Families
Meet Xavier Type 1 Diabetes, also known as Childhood Diabetes, is a disease in which the pancreas does not produce enough insulin (a hormone essential to regulating blood sugar levels), or stops producing it altogether. Type 1 Diabetes is typically discovered in...
by Vivian Solodkin | Feb 17, 2022 | Meet The Families
Meet Joan (Jo-han) A few days after his birth, Joan started to struggle to breathe, his heart was racing and his abdomen was rising and falling at an extremely rapid rate. Joan was rushed to the hospital, stayed for a week and subsequently was in and out of the...