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Anthony Orjuela
We are The Orjuela Family. We’ve been married for 10 years and my husband has been in the Marine Corps for 14 years. We have two wonderful but crazy kids; Melissa who is 7 and...
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Ella Pannacciulli
Ella’s level of needs has impacted everyone in our family. She has 16 hours of nursing, along with numerous doctor visits per week, OT, PT, vision therapy, and speech therapy through out the week. Sarah's mother comes to assist in the care...
Jack Abernathy
We are the Abernathy family. My husband and I have been married for 15 years and we have been blessed with three wonderful children: Mackenzie is our 10 year-old daughter who loves to read, sing and ride horses, our 5-year old son Max who loves...
Tawny Alyn Larsen
When she was born she seemed to be ok just maybe a little more premature than previously thought. She wouldn't suck, she had low muscle tone and she was unusually sleepy. After several days in the NICU at our local hospital, with regular tube...
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Cynthia Hextell
9 weeks to go!So I just got my cordblood kit in the mail…here we go again! The first time I wasn’t sure about banking our cord blood but this time there is NO question in my mind because we actually had to use it! I can’t believe I only have 9 weeks to go before I have [...]
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When Dallas Hextell was 18 months old his life was profoundly changed when his cord blood was used to reverse the debilitating effects of cerebral palsy. Now, the Dallas Hextell foundation is providing support to families and researchers who are advancing the use of cord blood stem cells to treat cerebral palsy and other forms of brain injuries.
