Families share stories about their “home-away-from-home”
Two-year-old Feliciano Montes can no longer see the cartoons he loves or sort the colors of his favorite blocks. Realistically, that may never change. But his favorite game of piggyback rides with Dad hasn’t changed a bit. “Everything is different since he lost his vision,”… Continue Reading Home Is Where the Piggyback Rides Are...
When Joey Su’a takes the football field as an offensive lineman for Arizona State University during the next several seasons, he’ll wear the number 54 – not for good luck, stats or tradition, but to honor the 54 days he spent in the hospital fighting… Continue Reading From Meningitis at Two, to Division 1 Gridiron: Joey’s Story of Survival...
Yuma mom of four Isabel Garcia arrived in Phoenix by helicopter on a warm, sunny afternoon in June 2024 with nothing. No car, no local family support, nothing but the clothes on her back – and her 4-month-old daughter Amayah. When she woke up that… Continue Reading An Infant’s Amayah-zing Fight Against Leukemia...
Already the parents of a 3-year-old son and a 1½-year-old daughter, a positive pregnancy test in the fall of 2024 led Boston-area residents Rachel and Marco Vargas to believe they were expecting their third child. But during Rachel’s first ultrasound, the astonished sonographer went suddenly… Continue Reading 1 in 40 Million Odds Hit a Jackpot at Roanoke House...
Adoptive mom Claudia knows the favorite songs of most of the babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). In fact, you can often find the professional singer singing lullabies to calm and soothe her daughter Thea and the other newborns nearby. Since Thea was… Continue Reading Adoptive Mom Sings Lullabies of Love in the NICU...
As the sun rises on a beautiful Saturday morning in December, the Dobson House kitchen at Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central and Northern Arizona is filled with the sounds of Haley Marin and members of her extended family cheerfully chopping, stirring, and preparing another… Continue Reading A Recipe for Comfort: Honoring Maeva Sol...
