Smiles for Kids Blog
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Teen organizes race to helps kids with cleft palates
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
One day in February four years ago, Robin and Ryan were out for a jog when the idea for the 5K came up, Robin said.
They knew that many 5K or 10K races raise money for charities or causes. They figured they could start one for children with cleft palates, she said.
Read the whole story here: http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/stories/2008/09/13/cleft_palate_run.html
Mother to lobby PM over syndrome
From BBC News:
A woman who had to pay £2,000 for treatment for her baby's medical condition is to lobby Gordon Brown to call for it to be made free on the NHS.Read the whole story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7588933.stm
Kate Fisher's daughter Matilda has a form of plagiocephaly, also known as flat head syndrome.
As a result, the 18-month-old's head is wider than it is long.
Ms Fisher, from Mirfield, West Yorkshire, has collected over 5,000 signatures on a petition calling for the NHS to fund special helmets.
Juliet’s Journey: Life with benign but disfiguring tumor
Via the Colorado Springs Gazette - Colorado Springs,CO,USA
The story of a young girl with a Vascular Anomaly: hemangioma.
The girl wants to know why Juliet's lip is the size of a large grape, discolored and misshapen. She's puzzled by the massive growth of pink and white tissue that has overtaken the 2-year-old's ear, her left cheek and her neck. I could tell them. I could explain it is a hemangioma, a common but little understood birthmark - or, more accurately, a benign tumor, a vascular neoplasm, a mass of blood vessels.