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Children’s Organ Transplant Association The Trusted Leader Supporting Families … For a Lifetime
Thanks to Their Daughter’s Heart Transplant (15 Years Ago on February 15th) A Texas COTA Family is Celebrating American Heart Month February 1, 2023 — February is the month to celebrate love and hearts. Since 1964, February has been known as American Heart Month throughout the United States. For the Stephenson family of San Angelo, Texas, February truly is a month to celebrate selfless gifts from the heart. Their teenager, Reagan, is alive and able to celebrate Valentine’s Day (also recognized as National Donor Day) this year because of the new heart she received 15 years ago on February 15th. Stacy Stephenson’s fourth pregnancy was seemingly uneventful. Mom Stacy, Dad…
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Chimera Vividly Captures Conflicting Emotions of Long-Term Cancer Survivorship
Sacramento, CA, February 2, 2023 — Few people have survived the nightmare of a stem cell transplant gone sideways. Fewer still have had the audacity to write about the miraculous yet bewildering experience of becoming a genetic chimera. Brad Buchanan breaks this taboo and offers readers eloquent, surrealistic and profoundly moving passages about his dramatic transformation and amazing recovery. Chimera, Buchanan’s fourth book of poems, tells in lyrically oblique confessions and hallucinatory vignettes the difficult but nevertheless wonderful history and aftermath of the author’s 2016 stem cell transplant. After a rocky and near-fatal beginning, the transplant enabled Buchanan to survive a malignant blood cancer through becoming a genetic chimera (his DNA was altered through the successful…
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THE LAND OF SECRET SUPERPOWERS: VEGETABLES By Devin Alexander #Giveaway
Empower Your Kids To WANT To Eat Veggies! When my kiddos were younger I definitely did some “profressional playing” with food in order to disquise veggies in something else or at least make them look fun when eating. I had a cool cookbook that taught me how to shape shift them into kid-friendly creatures. What I love about this book is for those of us who have kiddos who sometimes get frustrated during meal times, we might not always have the right words to keep positive in that moment. The Land of Secret Superpowers: Vegetables gives you a laidback child-like way to communicate the fun around eating VEGETABLES, slimy things…
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