Last summer, 13-year-old Alex was riding his bike and was struck by a dump truck. He was rushed to Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital and taken to the emergency room in critical condition. Dr. Diana Haddad, Blythedale's new inpatient medical director, was an attending physician at Maria Fareri and on...
A six-year-old's fight against anti-NMDA encephalitis
Just days before Christmas in 2023, a previously healthy, five-year-old Bella suffered a seizure that sent her to Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York (CHONY). A follow-up appointment for outpatient neurology was scheduled to investigate a possible epilepsy syndrome. However, a few days...
Strength, Resilience, and a Whole Lot of Sparkle
Eleven-year-old Savannah immediately fills any room she enters with her bright smile and sassy personality, never letting her complex medical condition define her. At birth, Savannah was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening genetic disorder, Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome (CCHS)...
In June 2022, 15-year-old Terrell was out with friends when he climbed on top of a subway train. While surfing, he was struck in the head by an overhead beam as the train was pulling into a subway station. He was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens with a severe traumatic brain injury. Following...
Jayden was born at just 27-weeks' gestation. At birth, he required resuscitation and was placed on a mechanical ventilator to help him breathe. He was diagnosed with chronic lung disease of prematurity, also known as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, as well as pulmonary hypertension. He was first...
"When you hear your child has a sudden medical diagnosis or a sudden trauma, life as our families knew it has undergone a drastic change. One of our goals is to help them navigate that phase of their journey with support, with compassion, with clinical expertise, but mostly with hope." Watch the...
Six-year-old Jayden has no shortage of energy. Born at just 29-weeks gestation, the former preemie was diagnosed with intractable epilepsy, which caused seizures that were sometimes several minutes long. He used a manual wheelchair due to spasticity in his legs, and received all his nutrition...
Maryam was born full-term in January at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. At birth, she was noted to have hypotonia, or decreased muscle tone, and a poor ability to feed. Less than a month later, Maryam was admitted to Blythedale Children's Hospital for complex medical care and specialized feeding...
Last September, five-year-old Steffon endured a life-threatening health crisis. Born with sickle cell disease, Steffon experiences periods of extreme pain, referred to as pain crises, at least once a year, a challenging but common symptom of the complicated disease. This time, however, was different...
During a middle school volleyball practice last September, Aubrey fractured her right femur. As her condition continued to deteriorate, Aubrey's parents, Meghann and Joe, brought her to Maria Fareri Children's Hospital for a CT scan which revealed several tumors on her spine. A subsequent biopsy...
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