Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit Patient Stories

When Wesley was diagnosed with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia, his family relocated from New York to Philadelphia to find the expert care he needed to survive.

Emoni’s family relocated from Atlanta to be near Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia so she could get the expert care she needed immediately after birth.

After a heart transplant at 9 weeks old, Katrina is now a busy college student and a fierce advocate for organ donation.

Lily was only a week old when CHOP corrected her condition called transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Now she’s an active and caring 7-year-old.

Luelle underwent fetal surgery to treat myelomeningocele, the most severe form of spina bifida. Her journey was documented in the PBS series TWICE BORN.

When doctors discovered her unborn baby had an enormous tumor, Lesly moved cross-country in search of hope for her daughter. The PBS series TWICE BORN followed their journey.

After learning their unborn daughter had myelomeningocele, the most severe form of spina bifida, Miah’s parents turned to CHOP for care that would allow her to thrive.

Ciarlo was diagnosed before birth with spina bifida and had surgery at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia the day after he was born. Today, he’s followed by the Spina Bifida Program.

At just one day old, Emily underwent surgery to remove a sacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT), a large tumor that had grown to be a third of her size by the time she was born.

Madeline, a healthy girl at 9, had a heart operation at CHOP at 5 days old. Her parents and grandfather donate to CHOP to fund research for cardiac care.