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A Grandmother’s Love Knows No Bounds

Updated on December 14, 2023

Christine became a full-time caretaker of three young children at 68 years old. On January 6, 2018, Christine was granted custody of her great grandson, Noah, and his two siblings […]

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Neve riding a horse named Ruby at Horse SenseAbility in Sherborn, MA, and supported by The Genesis Foundation for Children

Equine-Assisted Therapy Helps Fourth Grader with Rare Disease Improve Spacial Awareness, Strength, and Self-Confidence

Updated on February 25, 2022

Neve is not your average ten-year-old fourth grader. Although you wouldn’t know it from looking at her, Neve has a rare genetic disorder called Trisomy X. One in 1,000 females […]

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Defying The Odds

Updated on February 9, 2022

Your Daughter Will Never Walk or Talk. Defying the odds, Amy never thought she’d be able to have children. Her pregnancy was high-risk  due to her own medical issues. However, […]

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We All Know A Chair

Updated on February 9, 2022

Written by Amy Breen, a patient of The Feingold Center for Children We all know a chair. We’ve encountered that chair various times. I know I have, sometimes to get […]

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Charlotte with a feeding tube

“Everything Seemed Fine.”

Updated on February 9, 2022

Charlotte Couldn’t Feed Without Choking When Jenna gave birth to her second child, Charlotte, in September 2014 at Lowell General Hospital, “everything seemed fine,” she explained. However, Jenna discovered that […]

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Bella and George

“She’s Fine, She’s Just Skinny.”

Updated on February 9, 2022

“She’s fine; she’s just skinny,” was what the pediatrician told Rachel Burton when her daughter, Bella, was two-and-a-half years old. Bella’s “failure to thrive” diagnosis meant that her height and […]

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Getting A Diagnosis Was Life-Changing

Updated on February 10, 2022

When Tina and her husband, Ernie, had their second daughter, Myla, they knew early on that something wasn’t right. Myla wasn’t hitting her developmental milestones. Unlike their older daughter, Myla […]

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Patient Continues Dr. Murray Feingold’s Legacy

Updated on February 9, 2022

  Tom Hamel was born in 1973 with Treacher Collins syndrome, a rare genetic disorder characterized by abnormalities of the head and face. Tom’s parents brought him to Dr. Murray Feingold when […]

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Patient Narrative: The Nozzolillo Family

Posted on December 18, 2019

The word is Grant– in the verb form it means to be given something…the dictionary explains (a right, a power… property etc.) to bestow on, impart to, present with… On […]

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Patient Narrative: The Vekiarides Family

Updated on November 11, 2019

We were referred to the National Birth Defect Center (currently known as the Feingold Center for Children), by our pediatrician when Anna was first born. We will be forever grateful […]

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