Kernicterus, Medical Professionals and Judgement

Anonymous There are some days that are burned into your memory.  You can remember these moments with such clarity. A moment for me was when doctors told me that my son would never walk and would never talk.  And, with that information, I knew he would never catch frogs in a pond, he’d never jump…

In the Shadows

They are in the shadows. Babes are at risk.  (Jaundice can become toxic when not managed properly.)  Children live with no viable treatment options.  Research funds are needed.  Adults live in immense difficulty.  Families struggle to hold together fractured pieces of their lives. …all because of jaundice. There are those shaped by “the K word”…

Preventable Tornado

Jaundice. It’s a word most parents are familiar with, but to my group…it sends chills down our spine. We don’t joke about cute yellow babies, or pumpkins that are orange. For us, jaundice was the strange weather that heralded a MASSIVE TORNADO in an innocent child’s newborn body, just days after coming home from the…