In this week’s incredibly honest and profound episode, we sit down with Jeff Loving, a husband, proud NICU dad, and the author of Holding Onto the Light: A Father’s Journey Through Loss and Healing. Jeff shares the deeply personal, often unspoken, side of grief: the...
Episode 72 | Laurie’s Story – A son with Fanconi Anemia and Tetralogy of Fallot
Podcast Show Notes
“It was a life or death… that was our life and we rose to the occasion.”
Katie, Certified Child Life Specialist talks with Laurie Strongin from Hope for Henry.
We talk about:
+How parenthood started out with hearing the news no parent wants to hear
+How Laurie’s growing family lived out of hotels and Ronald McDonald Homes for years
+The impact her first born’s death has had on his siblings
+How the first birthday without a “birthday boy” sparked a mission that has reached over 55,000 children in hospitals.
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