by kymera_editor | Mar 25, 2022 | Awareness, Fundraising, Grief and Loss, Long QT Syndrome, Parenting
“We celebrate Graeme every day in our family by persevering and sticking together, against all odds.” Deby’s Story I was 28 when I was diagnosed with LQTS in 1989. In 2000, we learned from my Electrophysiologist, Dr. Blair Halperin that we could do genetic testing for...
by kymera_editor | Mar 7, 2022 | Fundraising, Grief and Loss, Raising Awareness, Raising Funds, Sudden Cardiac Arrest
Brian was a junior and on the dean’s honor list at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studying biomedical engineering and computer science. He truly loved his college experience and formed an amazing second family away from home. We are comforted knowing he was the...
by kymera_editor | Mar 2, 2022 | Awareness, Fundraising, Grief and Loss, Long QT Syndrome, Raising Awareness, Raising Funds
Lyla, Sonny Jude’s sister, at the pancake breakfast My son, Sonny Jude, went unresponsive (stopped breathing and his precious heart stopped beating) at six months old. His babysitter saw this and performed CPR and resuscitated him. It was then we...
by kymera_editor | Jan 11, 2022 | Fundraising, Grief and Loss, Long QT Syndrome, SADS Spotlight
In 1997, my wife and I had three kids. Our son Michael, who was eleven, had fainted twice. The first time, it was explained away by the E.R. and his pediatrician as a vasovagal episode from unusual activities. The second time, he got an EKG and was examined by a...
by kymera_editor | Jan 4, 2022 | Fundraising, Grief and Loss, Long QT Syndrome, SADS Spotlight
In 1999, we got a phone call on a Friday from our son who lived on a college campus where his sister also went to school. We were on vacation. He said that his sister had passed away – he wanted to tell us before the police called us. Nobody knew why she had passed...
by kymera_editor | May 19, 2021 | Awareness, Fundraising, Long QT Syndrome
Can you tell me a little bit about your family’s SADS journey? Our son was seven years old when he cardiac arrested. We went to go wake him up for school and we found him dead in bed, and we did CPR. He was in a coma, and had hypothermia therapy, and then recovered....
