Cares for Kids Radiothon Podcast

The Sanford Children's Hospital NICU team performs countless miracles in the story of Layke  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The inspirational story of Madilyn on the Cares For Kids Radiothon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reina's father tells her story on the Cares For Kids Radiothon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen to the powerful story of Kaylee as told by her mother See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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TINA FROM WYNDMERE HAD A VERY SCARY EXPERIENCE WITH HER 2-YEAR-OLD SON, LANDON. IN JULY 2020, LANDON SWALLOWED A BUTTON BATTERY AND WAS RUSHED TO SANFORD CHILDREN'S AS THE BATTERY WAS BURNING HIS ESOPHAGUS. LANDON SPENT FIVE DAYS AT SANFORD CHILDREN'S TO RECOVER FROM THIS TRAUMATIC EVENT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

AT AMANDA'S FIRST ULTRASOUND IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT PAXLEY WAS MEASURING SMALL FOR HER GESTATION. SPECIALISTS WERE ABLE TO DETECT THAT THE REASON WHY PAXLEY WAS SO SMALL WAS THAT THERE WAS A BLOCKAGE OF THE BLOOD AND NUTRIENT FLOW FROM THE UMBILICAL CORD TO THE PLACENTA. AS PREGNANCY PROGRESSED, AMANDA DEVELOPED PRECLAMPSIA, AND DELIVERED PAXLEY 27 WEEKS GESTATION DURING AN EMERGENCY C-SECTION TO SAVE BOTH HERSELF AND PAXLEY. PAXLEY SPENT THE FIRST 10 ½ WEEKS OF HER LIFE IN THE NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT AT SANFORD CHILDREN'S.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Several families discuss how important their "Memory Boxes", paid for by Cares For Kids, are to them - to the music of Lady Gaga, "Till It Happens To You".  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

WHAT STARTED OUT AS A RED BUMP ON THE HEAD TURNED INTO A DIAGNOSIS OF EWINGS SARCOMA, A CANCEROUS TUMOR ON THE SCALP OF HER HEAD. 7-YEAR-OLD KYNLEE, FROM LANGDON, WENT THROUGH SURGERY TO REMOVE THE TUMOR, 28 ROUNDS OF CHEMO, 28 DAYS OF RADIATION AND NUMEROUS NIGHTS AT SANFORD CHILDREN'S, SHE IS NOW CANCER FREE!             See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

LUKE FROM FESSENDEN, ND FELL ILL LAST SPRING AND NEEDED THE SPECIALIST AT SANFORD CHILDREN'S. HE SPENT 41 DAYS AT SANFORD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BECAUSE OF A RUPTURED APPENDIX AND BENEFITTED FROM MANY OF THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FUNDED THROUGH EVENTS LIKE CARES FOR KIDS.      See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MACKENZIE JOST, FROM CARRINGTON, ND, IS SO FULL OF ENERGY AND SPUNK THAT IT IS HARD TO TELL THAT SHE IS SICK. DIAGNOSED WITH CYSTIC FIBROSIS SHORTLY AT 6 WEEKS OLD, MCKENZIE HAS LIVED HER LIFE IN AND OUT OF SANFORD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. MCKENZIE HAS BEEN NAMED THE 2021 NORTH DAKOTA CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS CHAMPION FOR SANFORD CHILDREN'S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

JASE, FROM MINOT, WAS ADMITTED TO SANFORD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IN JANUARY 2020 AFTER HE LOST FUNCTION OF HIS FACE. HE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A NONCANCEROUS BRAIN TUMOR AND HAD 4 MAJOR SURGERIES AND SPENT OVER 40 DAYS AT SANFORD CHILDREN'S. JASE IS STILL RECOVERING BUT DOING WELL. HE CONTINUES TO BE FOLLOWED BY SPECIALIST AT SANFORD CHILDREN'S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

6-YEAR-OLD GORDON WAS ENJOYING THE SUMMER IN JULY WHEN HE EXPERIENCED A BIKE ACCIDENT AFTER A JUMP THAT RESULTED IN HIM LANDING ON HIS HANDLEBARS. AFTER BEING IN AND OUT OF THE LOCAL HOSPITAL HE WAS EVENTUALLY AIRLIFTED TO SANFORD CHILDREN'S DUE TO A LACERATED PANCREAS, A VERY SERIOUS CONDITION. GORDON SPENT 15 DAYS RECOVERING AT SANFORD CHILDREN'S. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

JOHN AND STEPHANIE FROM LENNON, SD HAD THEIR WORLD TURN UPSIDE DOWN IN NOVEMBER OF 2020. THEIR 8-YEAR-OLD SON, JAEGER, STARTED TO FALL ILL WITH A STOMACH-ACHE. TESTS INCLUDING AN X-RAY AND BLOOD WORK THAT SHOWED HIS WHITE BLOOD COUNT WAS DANGEROUSLY ELEVATED. AFTER NUMEROUS TEST, IT WAS CONFIRMED JAEGER HAD A RARE FORM OF CANCER CALLED CML- CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA. JAEGER IS ONLY IN THE FIRST PART OF HIS COURAGOUS FIGHT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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