Call this one a long distance Christmas Wish. When Sonya reached out to us about her sister Mary, half of Mary s family was still here in Idaho while she and her son, Fernando, were at California Children s Hospital. Fernando, who s only 10 years old, was born with a heart condition and has already undergone one heart transplant.
Unfortunately, he started showing signs that his body was rejecting the heart. His medical team was able to manage the symptoms with medication for a little while, but inevitably found that he was experiencing heart failure again.
That s why the entire family is now in California. They received some good news that not only was Fernando able to get back on the heart transplant list, he s near the top of it!
Over the past two weeks, there s been a welcomed change to the Idaho Coronavirus resource page. Rather than the rising case numbers as the first numbers on the page, you re seeing how many of vaccine doses have been administered throughout the state.
Unfortunately, right below that, you re still seeing rather high case numbers statewide. Our health care workers, especially those working with respiratory patients, are exhausted. Mary, a respiratory therapist at St. Luke s, is one of those people and her mom, Lynn, worries about not just her physical health, but mental well being as well.
With the hospital short staffed at times, Mary s stepping up above and beyond her scheduled shifts to help her co-workers feel less overwhelmed. When she does get time off, she doesn t miss a beat stepping back into the role of wife and mom to two little ones.
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Every single Christmas Wish nomination that we receives leaves a footprint on our hearts, but this one is really tough. Boise has a really beautiful running community and it turns out we have some mutual friends with Jenny. That s why we were surprised when we saw her son Blake s nomination for her come across the Christmas Wish team s desk.
We knew Jenny as an ultramarathoner who celebrated beating colon cancer by running 100 miles. She was declared cancer free years ago, but last winter she noticed that she was something just didn t seem right while she was running. She felt like she wasn t getting enough air into her lungs and asked her doctor about it. He dismissed it as asthma. Runners are incredibly in tune with their bodies and Jenny knew that it wasn t asthma.
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Being a single mom of three kids under five is tough enough as it is. Shamai s working two jobs trying to keep her little family a float and things for them haven t been easy. She lost her mom to cancer a little over a year ago and is heart broken that her mom never had the chance to meet Shamai s youngest child.
Cancer struck the family again when Shamai s middle child, her son Brazen, was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. He s been going through chemo and radiation treatments, but she very recently found out that they may not be effective in saving her little boy s life. In the coming days, she ll have to make some difficult decisions about his course of treatment.
LITE-FM s Christmas Wish is back, thanks to our friends at Pioneer Federal Credit Union.
Felicita s story will make you hug your loved ones a little bit tighter and realize how truly precious life is. Just a few days ago, she lost her 21 year old son in a car accident. Prior to the accident, David was excited to dive head first into his role as a new dad to Gabriella.
The news devastated the family and now, instead of shopping for Christmas gifts they re worrying about funeral expenses. Throughout this dark time for their family, Felicita said the one ray of light they have is her grandbaby. She says when she looks at Gabriella, she can see David in her and is so excited to play a role in raising this baby girl.