Isaac Almeida: Share Your Story

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I thank God for all of the nurses and doctors that work at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles and help children through all of their pain. Their devotion to children truly comes from their hearts. The job you guys did is nothing but a miracle and I thank all of you from the bottom of my heart. God bless you!

Thank you, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, for allowing me to share Isaac’s story here!

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Grace Kuyumijian: Share Your Story

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Throughout my five-year career in the CTICU, I have learned more profoundly of the heart’s centrality. I learn daily what it means to fill my heart with love so that I overflow to those entrusted to my care.

I am learning that the precision of working in a cardiac unit is empty without compassion.

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Dan Brimberry: Share Your Story

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A New Lease on Life Told by Himself As I write this, I am sitting in my college dorm room and I have Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to thank for it. From the many months I spent as a baby in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) to my recent treatment regimen in Endocrinology, Children’s [...]

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Samantha Aguilar: Share Your Story

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Thanks to Dr. Starnes and all those wonderful surgeons, cardiologist and nurses. All of them helped my baby go through her second surgery. They did an amazing job, but I guess my baby’s little heart couldn’t handle it anymore and stopped beating on May 24, 2008.

She went to heaven, but I’m so thankful with the hospital and all the Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU) staff for all the love and care they gave to my baby.

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Celebrating Althea’s Championship Win

Althea with mom, Rebecca, at her graduation

“When we brought Althea into the hospital for surgery, she was in a wheelchair. She was not using the use of her lower limbs and was spending all day in bed, trying not to move because she was in pain. Now, she is on a softball team that just won its Division League Championships,” shares [...]

Filed under: Patients & Families on August 4th, 2009 | 4 Comments »

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