by Francie Todd | Apr 8, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
When we decided to start a family, it never occurred to us that we would face any life altering challenges for any of our children. To be honest we were living in the present and not worried about the “tomorrow.” Our daughter Claire came into this world so...
by Francie Todd | Apr 1, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
I had a very normal pregnancy and with it being our first child, we were so excited to become parents and start a new chapter of our life. On a Monday morning I went into work and noticed that I could not get my swelling to go down in my ankles. I reached out to our...
by Francie Todd | Mar 25, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
Our daughter, Halle, was born in February 2010. She surprised us by coming five weeks early. She was small and had to stay in the hospital for extra time due to her low weight and low temperatures, but we took her home eight days later and launched into the perfect...
by Francie Todd | Mar 18, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
Addison ‘Addi’ Walter is a beam of light to anyone she meets. Addi is full of energy from sun up until her head hits the pillow at night, defying the odds of her diagnosis every single day. In January of 2012, I was writing our first story about Addi. This story,...
by Francie Todd | Mar 11, 2022 | Friday Feature Family, KIND
Smith was diagnosed with Type One Diabetes (“T1D”) at 2.5 years old. T1D is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s pancreas stops producing insulin – a hormone essential to turning food into energy. Without insulin, a person with T1D will become ketotic and...
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