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About the Women's Auxiliary

About Children's Medical
Center
The Women's Auxiliary Greeting Cards are
a beautiful way you can help children in need.

All proceeds help support
the Children's Medical Center mission -
to make life better for children.

Thanks to you, a brighter future is
in the cards for many children.




Meet our patients:
Logan
age 1

HIS STORY
Liberty
age 3

HER STORY

Jake
age 7

HIS STORY
Bright and blue-eyed, 1 ½-year-old Logan Wallace is all smiles these days - a stark contrast to his condition at birth.
Logan was diagnosed with Transposition of the Great Arteries - a congenital heart defect - an hour after he was born. The condition causes the aorta and pulmonary arteries to be switched, leading to a lack of oxygen at birth.
The Heart Center at Children's, set up with a Cardiovascular intensive care unit and a team of critical care experts, has the proficiency needed to care for the smallest babies.
When Logan was two days old and 6.5 pounds, Dr. Joseph Forbess, chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Children's, performed an arterial switch - repairing the holes in Logan's heart as well as switching the coronary arteries.
After four hours, Dr. Forbess met the family in the waiting room with the news that Logan's heart was beating perfectly.
The Wallace family created Logan's Gift - a foundation to support Cardiothoracic Surgery at Children's.
"We were told that more than 200 people would touch Logan's case before he left the hospital, and each person we met was amazing," said Beth, a member of the Women's Auxiliary to Children's. "We love everything about Children's and we will be completely devoted to the hospital for the rest of our lives."
  On Dec. 16 at the Ingram family farm in Windthorst, Texas, 3-year-old Liberty suddenly became listless with shallow breathing. Her condition quickly worsened to generalized seizures. Michelle and Tony, Liberty's parents, drove Liberty to a nearby hospital. There, Liberty was diagnosed with Addison's disease - primary adrenal deficiency - which causes low blood pressure and low blood sugar.
     While at the hospital, Liberty developed a blood clot in the femoral artery in her leg. Because that hospital was not equipped to treat the problem, Liberty was transported to Children's - the one place in North Texas that provides pediatric interventional radiology. Children's also had a team of specialists to treat her Addison's disease.
     Physicians at Children's stabilized Liberty's blood pressure and resolved the blood clot. Liberty's healing continued with care from endocrinologists, infectious disease and surgical specialists, neurologists and the critical care team.
     Liberty continues to receive medications and treatment at Children's to stay ahead of Addison's disease.
     In February, Liberty celebrated Christmas with her family and even received a late visit from Santa Claus. Now she is well on her way to riding in style on her favorite gift - a pink peddle tractor.
     "Watching Liberty unwrap gifts and knowing that she almost didn't make it was overwhelming," Michelle said. "I couldn't imagine life without her. It has made us appreciate the little things in life and not take anything for granted."
Jensen "Jake" Moock Jr. draws every day. The 7-year old created a wintry landscape with trains, mountains and penguins for the 2008 Women's Auxiliary to Children's Medical Center holiday greeting card line.
Jake was brought to Children's Christmas morning 2006 with severe septic shock caused by an intestinal blockage. During his stay, which lasted six months, he spent many hours at the trainscape with the train conductor. His mother, Kelly Moock, said that Christmas "was an adventure, a journey for Jake, and that picture represents that Christmas to him. She noted that Jake made sure to include the Children's red balloon in his landscape. "We were in a valley, and the mountains were in the distance, and the balloon gave us hope." Jake, Kelly, her husband Jensen, and their daughter, Alex, live in Dallas, where Jake attends Bradfield Elementary.