Sophia Grace Dummer was born on May 20, 2011 at 7:00 AM, at 32 weeks gestation.  She was baby B in a set of triplets.  At 2 days old she was diagnosed with Ileal Atresia and had her first surgery.  We were then told that she acquired strictures and would need another surgery....

Worth it in the end.....

My story began almost 20 years ago when I promised my best-friend that I would donate my kidney to her should she ever need one after her father passed away of polycystic kidney disease because, she too, suffered from the same disease. I never dreamed that I...

The unexpected twists and turns of life...

            It all began for me with a good deed. My sweet, adorable, beloved 6-month-old niece had a terminal liver disease and needed a transplant to survive. I felt...

My nephew, Gabriel, who is now 6 years old, was diagnosed with Hirshprung’s disease  when he was born. Only three days after he was born doctors had to perform an emergency descending colostomy because of the magnitude of his obstruction. Everything went wrong from there. We live in...

My first father’s day was certainly not as I had imagined.  We were in a strange city, in a huge hospital and within the upcoming days my wife, Tammy and I, would be making the most difficult decision so far in our lives.  Our only child, Madelyn Kate made her entrance into our...

I am Michele Wilson from Simi Valley, California and I am a single mom. My seven year old son, Jovaan started having gastroenterologist intestinal problems when he was 4 months old. We were living in Florida when my son was first born and I remember my son would cry often, especially after I...

Paging the real life “Dr. Gregory House,” are you out there? What I am about to share with you is not out of a fictional television drama or a made for TV movie, this is my family’s daily life. My name is Haley Diaz and I am 13 years old. I’m the eldest child in my...