Since she was about six years old, Monica dreamed of becoming a doctor. However, it wasn’t until she was well into her fourth year at Harvard Medical School, right before residency applications were due, that she first interacted with the field of neonatal neurology. At the time, Monica was all set to become a general pediatrician. But, upon beginning a […]
At the time of Lisa’s pregnancy with Amelia, she was thirty-five years old, and she and her husband had been married for eleven years. They lived in the Washington, DC, area, where Lisa worked as a lawyer. After all those years of marriage, Lisa and her husband were overwhelmed with excitement at the prospect of becoming parents. Because Lisa had […]
In 2014, Suzi made the big move from Chicago to Los Angeles to be with her husband, ready to find out what this new chapter in her life had in store for her. Together, they had this vision of what their future would look like. As people who felt most at home when they were closest to Earth, they dreamed […]
“Love is a song that never ends, one simple theme repeating. Like the voice of a heavenly choir, love’s sweet music flows on.” -From Disney’s Bambi Michelle currently resides in Colorado, where her husband works for the military. In 2020, when she became a mother for the first time, Michelle was overjoyed at the prospect of watching her daughter grow […]
Dr. Edward Hurvitz is a pediatric physiatrist who serves on Hope for HIE’s Medical Advisory Board. Back in the 1980s, when Ed was a student at Wayne State College of Medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) was still a relatively new field, but the trends suggested that it would be one of the most-needed fields in the years to come. […]
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