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Care Pages One
December 27, 2007
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Every day families at the Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida deal with serious
illnesses. Rebekah was originally diagnosed with leukemia A-L-L in December 2006.
We were there a week then and now we have to come in every time she has a fever.
This time she’s having trouble keeping her weight up so she needs to be able to
be keeping it up without that before she can go home so we’ve been here about a
week and a half,” says Christine. Just down the hall from the Kilpatrick family,
the Hoover family shares a similar experience with little Ethan. Jennifer Hoover
says, “Ethan was diagnosed about a year and a half ago with A-L-L leukemia so that’s
why we’re here. We come up any time he has fevers and we stay anywhere from three
days to a couple of weeks.” Christine and Jennifer know how challenging fighting
a disease like leukemia can be for both mother and child. Christine says, “It’s
obviously difficult. She has a 13 month old brother. He was two months old at the
time she was diagnosed so that’s the hardest.” Jennifer adds, “It’s tough because
you’re dropping everything at home and you’re trying to get in the mind frame of
here and making sure that he gets his care.” But these moms say in many ways the
staff at Children’s Hospital of SWFL has helped to ease their anxieties. One way they are doing that is by providing a free internet webpage for their child. Find
out more about the Care Pages program in our December 28th story. |
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