Ellie Reminds Her Family of the Magic of a Good Snuggle
Ellie’s journey with AV canal defect, five open-heart surgeries, and remarkable resilience shows how her family learned to slow down, stay hopeful, and embrace each moment.
Children’s Cardiology Insights
Symptoms of CHD in babies, toddlers, preteens, and teens
Congenital heart disease, or CHD, involves heart defects and conditions that babies are born with. Sometimes CHD can be detected prenatally, but it is often diagnosed after birth and can present at any age. There are some common symptoms of…
Every Little Milestone Counts … Big!
Ollie spent his first Halloween at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Heart Center in the CICU, just 7 days post-op from his second open heart surgery. Mom Stephanie remembers that they had to get special permission to allow Ollie’s big brother,…
Heart Warrior Mom Turns Fear into Connection and Advocacy
Although she had a few months and the support of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Cardiology to prepare, Karlee said handing her newborn over to strangers with the hope that they could save his life presented a whole new level of…
The Heart of a Fisherman Never Gives Up
When Children’s Cardiology said that 10-year-old Grayson would need a pacemaker, one of his parents’ most pressing concerns was whether he’d still be able to go fishing. Grayson loves playing baseball and football, showing livestock, camping and playing with his…
Advocating for Other Heart Warriors Helps Jameson’s Family Thrive
Being diagnosed at two days old with Tetralogy of Fallot right as the COVID-19 pandemic begun caused Jameson’s parents a great deal of fear and anxiety. Since those early days, Jameson’s mom, Jamie, has managed the fear by educating herself…
Kids at Heart Connects Families Who “Get It”
In the mid-1990s, a small group of heart parents seeking community with one another started a potluck dinner in the Egleston Hospital conference room. What began as a simple desire to get to know other families traveling on the same…
Physicians with Heart: Dr. Dongngan Truong
Her enjoyment of the study of the mechanics of the heart and how it makes sense to her is one of the factors that led Pediatric Cardiologist Dongngan Truong, MD, MSCI, to focus on the cardiac specialty when she became…
My Child Fainted! What Do We Do Now?
Q&A with Dr. Brandon Harden, Pediatric Cardiologist & member of the Children’s Cardiology Syncope team Fainting or chronic dizziness in children and adolescents is often a sign that something’s not quite right, and if it happens frequently, they will be…
Grief Companions: Supporting Families Through Child Loss
After I lost my 17-year-old daughter in a car accident in 2021, a friend said the news of our tragedy had traveled through our close-knit community like an “earthquake.” That imagery has stuck with me. The loss of a child…