• Dear Me Blog Series: Shannon Boyd

    Posted on February 9, 2018

    Dear me, You’re right, you’ll lose everything you think is important. Your dream job, your savings, your sanity. And all those things you’re worried about happening…strokes, oral aversions, g-tubes, learning disabilities—those will all happen, too. You are not being a pessimist; you’re preparing. There is nothing you can do to stop these things from happening, […]

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  • Dear Me Blog Series: Molly Audetat

    Posted on February 7, 2018

    Dear Me, As you sit in the waiting room after the anatomy scan thrilled that you will be welcoming a baby girl, you know in your heart that something is wrong. Your doctor will enter the room to go over the ultrasound results and again it’s clear something is wrong! Things will become blurry around […]

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  • Dear Me Blog Series: Blair Patterson

    Posted on February 5, 2018

    Dear Me: I woke up the other day and looked in the mirror too early. You know what I mean – when you look at your face before the morning fairies repair the damage the overnight goblins did to how you look? I kept looking, though, and I thought “Lady? You’ve aged about 10 years […]

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  • Dear Me Blog Series: Jen Huegel

    Posted on February 1, 2018

    Dear Me, I can still see you. Curled into a ball, swallowed by darkness in your living room on a perfectly sunny and beautiful fall day.  Shades drawn, heart broken, unable to form words.  I can still feel the fear, ripping through your whole body as you shook with sobs that filled the quiet room.  […]

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  • Dear Me Blog Series: February CHD Awareness Month Campaign

    Posted on January 31, 2018

      Help-A-Heart is excited to feature the letters of several of our ‘heart’ parents during our February CHD (congenital heart disease) Awareness Month campaign.  We asked our families to write a letter to themselves during the time they received the diagnosis and first began their journey in the heart world.  Just a warning, these are […]

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