UPDATE May 20: Ten-month-old Armani Drakes died at 7:23 p.m. May 19 after she had been in a coma for several weeks. Born with one lung, her heart on the wrong side of her body and narrow veins — Armani was supposed to have her third surgery on Wednesday. But couldn’t because she has an […]
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9-month-old Baby Armani Fights For Her Life, Benefit Set To Help
Armani Drakes, who is just shy of being 9 months old, has spent her entire life in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin with a disease so rare it doesn’t have a name. Armani’s mom, April Drakes, gave birth to Armani at 28 weeks, but her body had only developed to 26 […]
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After Kidney Transplant, Abbi Strack Wants To Be A Nurse
The phone call came at 5 p.m. on August 8 from Shelley Chapman, a kidney transplant coordinator at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. At a friends house, 18-year-old Abbi Strack thought she was kidding that they had found a match for her kidney transplant. After all, she had just been at the doctor the […]