Since Jade has started growth hormone therapy, I thought now would be a good time to talk about why we originally decided against it. It’s kind of a crazy story, but let me preface with with the fact that our original notions about it were uneducated and based on hear say as opposed to actual …
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The Results Are In!
Hi We have received various results and diagnoses for Jade throughout the past few months, but we needed to go over all of it with the doctors and process things before we shared everything. In fact there’s still upcoming things we are monitoring, testing for and more appointments lined up, but I just wanted to …
Standing With You
In honor of national infant loss awareness month I wanted to share a little more about a loss we experienced after having our miracle baby Jade. After the horribly traumatic pregnancy We had with Jade, Jeff and I decided we didn’t want to have any more children for a long time. So when my doctors …
Jade’s Birth
By the end of my third trimester I had come to terms with the fact that I was not in control of what was going to happen to my baby. I had a renewed sense of strength and faith that we would overcome. I got to a point where I was at total and utter …
This is Jade
This is Jade. To anyone who doesn’t know her story, she looks like your average 10 year old. If you look closely she’ll have scraped knees and crazy wild tangled hair. Freckles dot her sun kissed nose from playing outside. Her deep blue eyes sparkle as she talks a mile a minute about the goings …
My name is Phylicia Reed and I am a Turner’s Syndrome mom
I created this page to give a glimmer of hope for those who have just received a scary diagnosis and to show you the reality of what Turner’s syndrome looks like in our lives. I hope we can inspire you to keep fighting and to know you’re not alone on this journey.