Armer Foundation for Kids

Nash is now 100 cancer free After 9 months of tests, blood transfusion, chemotherapy and hospital admissions and so much more, Nashs hepatoblastoma is gone Last April doctors learned that Nash had four cancerous tumors and said he would need a liver transplant. He was able to get the liver transplant in November and we have now switched gears from cancer protocols to transplant protocols. Nash has had some hearing loss so he now wears hearing aids and still goes to the hospital for monthly checks and medication adjustments.

Meet Penelope, during a 20-week ultrasound, a heart defect was identified and her family was told that immediate surgery at birth would correct her issues. After two months at home, Penelope began breathing heavily, failing to gain weight and she was admitted to Phoenix Childrens hospital during Easter weekend. They found that Penelope did not have the initial defect that was suspected, but rather a severe mitral valve disease, a VSD hole in the heart, and later developed heart block which is a condition where her heart cannot maintain a regular heartbeat rhythm. Over a 5-moth inpatient stay, penelope fought hard through 5 different heart surgeries, including repairs, a mitral value replacement and placement of a permanent pacemaker. Penelope has suffered seizures due to blood loss during one of the surgeries. With medication, she not had any further seizure activity since then, but it is unknown whether there might be permanent brain

Meet Riley - Riley has just completed her 12th surgery for her Perthes and is still battling with a smile on her face. Now 12, she has undergone numerous surgeries to improve the disease, which affects the blood flow to the femoral head, causing the bones to die and generating ongoing pain. Riley and her mother last week traveled to Baltimore for another operation, this time to repair two of six pins in her upper leg bone that have shifted since they were put in place last April. Riley then developed a severe infection in the bone and is on iv antibiotics and complete bed restrictions for the next 6 weeks.