Birthday
August 4, 2005

Contacts
Email Callie's Mum
Her name is Karen

Callie's Care Page

Medical:
Callie was born in August of 2005. She was diagnosed in-utero with a condition called DiGeorge Syndrome. This means a piece of chromasome 22 is missing. This can cause all kinds of havoc with the body. Because of this, Callie currently suffers from a heart defect called Pulmonary Atresia with a VSD and mulitple aorto pulmonary collateral arteries (PA VSD MAPCAs). With this, she also is missing her thymus and has some other complications. Callie was sent home to die from Atlanta hospitals at 2 months old. A man at Stanford has created a procedure called a unifocalization to try to save Callie. Callie will be two years old in August and will be going back to Stanford in CA for a third heart surgery. God has had his hand on her and she is already a miracle. Despite her "syndrome" and heart defect, Callie is a fat, vibrant baby and we rejoice.

Updates on Callie's Care Page

November 10, 2010

Callie is fine. She has discovered the joys of having her nails painted and she twiddles her little fingers everywhere showing everyone and saying "Fingernails! Fingernails! I'm just like Barbie! at Toys R' Us" Yep, she's seen a commercial or two, can you tell? :-)

Callie is proud of her new princess, light up shoes and shows them off to everyone. She just had her occupational therapy visit. Callie, although unable to eat correctly, LOVES hot food - she sucks on jalapeno peppers with ranch, hot sauce and lemon juice. She loves the powerful overwhelming tastes of spicy food. She still freaks out if she gets anything solid in her mouth, but she is obsessed with eating and food. We are praying we can get past this obstacle.

Otherwise, all is well here.