If you could go back to your teen years, what would you change?. Teens are like squirrels (too indecisive to pick a direction). Not yet an adult but no longer a child, yet they are often expected to make decisions like an adult and aren’t always treated like one.
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My name is Jan Burgers and my connection with The Children’s Healing Center began with a leukemia diagnosis for my little granddaughter, Becca, when she was 3 ½ years old.
My name is Amy Neumann and I have been a nurse for 15 years. I started my career in 2005 as a bedside nurse in the Pediatric Critical Care Unit at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital.
My name is Mary Marek and my family has hit the “jackpot” twice in the last three years. My oldest, Lily, was diagnosed with coarctation of the Aorta and secondary cardiomyopathy at four months of age.
After working for Mary Free Bed in pediatrics without kids of my own, I always wished I had held that job as a parent. I would have had a different level of empathy for the children and the families that I served.
Tell me what you think is the success of our future? Name one thing more important than anything else. My confidence in this answer is high. I know the answer lies in our children. How do I know this? Because I have spent my life working with kids. There is no greater asset to our society.
It’s hard to tell what parts of me now would have always been there…
Shortly after my daughter’s Neuroblastoma diagnosis nearly 10-years ago, I was grappling with how, and if, we would come out the other side.
The Children’s Healing Center is for kids. It’s in the name. When I started attending story times and movement classes with my son, I expected him to be the one making friends. I never thought it would be a place where, as a new mom, I would find parent support.
As you may have noticed in our newsletters and recent communication, I have a new surname.