Child's Name: Rahma

Diagnosis: BMT patient currently undergoing kidney dialysis three days a week for four hours at a time. In and out of the hospital.

Child's Age and Interest: 10 year old Somali girl. Likes joke books, poems and nursery rhymes. Works at a third grade level. Wouldn't mind text books as well as recreational reading. Has just taken up knitting through the hospital's needlework program. May also loke Klutz craft kits for girls such as nail art, bracelet making, fashion model drawing, etc

Email us to bring smiles Rahma from MN.

Hospitals we have sent Smile Packs to: Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, CA; UCI Children’s Hospital; Mission Hospital, CHOC Hospital; Mayo Clinic, MN; St. Mary’s Hospital, MN; Birmingham Children’s Hospital, England; Irvine Medical Center, CA; Great Ormond Street Hospital, England; Shriner’s Hospital for Children; Fountain Valley Hospital; PIH hospital; St.Judes-Atlanta, Amplatz Childrens Hospital; Ronald McDonald Houses: Orange County, Los Angeles, Rochester-MN, Minneapolis, Germany, Loma Linda, San Diego; Epilepsy Alliance of Orange County, United Cerebral Palsy foundation of Orange County, & Sickle Cell foundation of Orange County, Children’s Miller Hospital, Healthbridge Hospitall

Child's Name: Grace

Surgery Date : Sept 7- Berlin heart / transplant ?

Diagnosis: Cardiomyopathy

Child's Age and Interest: 3 1/2 -  Mickey, Dora, anything Nick jr.

Share your story: Grace is 3 and currently has her 2nd Berlin heart.  She is awaiting a heart transplant.

Child's Name: ariel

Surgery Date : september 28, 2011

Diagnosis: complete tracheal rings

Child's Age and Interest: 5 monthes elmo and the little mermaid

Share your story: MY baby Ariel was born June 23, 2011 and aspirated at birth so about 16 hrs later she was sent to sanford fargo, there she was diagnosed with laryngo malacia and she got sent home after 2 wks. We had her home for about 6 wks and she wouldnt eat and she was really fussy so I called sandford phone nursing and they could hear her breathting over the phone and told me that was a 911 call so then I took her into the local hospital and the on-call doctor told me I was just being an anxious mother and I need to make an appointment with her pediatrician in the morning. She was clearly retracting and in respiratory distress so I decided to take it apon myself to bring her back to Fargo and by the time I got there and they were checking her sats she was starting to go apnic so they had to intubate her. Then theyh gave her maintance fluids and that diluted her blood so she had blood transfusion. They did an x-ray on her chest and found she had pneumonia. Once all that!

  got cleared up the doctors did some further testing and found stenosis in her trachea and sent her to U of M Amplatz Childrens Hospital for the ENT specialists and they did all new testing and found the stenosis was complete tracheal rings and she had surgery the next week. Thank you for listening to my story God Bless!! we are still not out nof the hospiutal but she is doing good

Child's Name: Risha S.

Surgery Date : Dec 01-

Diagnosis: Auto Islet Cell Transplant & Pancreatectomy

Child's Age and Interest: 15,

KOBO.COM gift card

Share your story: Risha is the co-founder of the KWCF. Please visit www.cotaforrishas.com for more info and wish list

Childrens Names: Thomas  and Matthew L (Twins)

Age: 12 yrs old twins,

Wish Request: GI Joe, Star Wars, Santa Claus

Diagnosis: DiGeorge Syndrome

Share your story: 12 yr old twin, born premature

Many complications from DiGeorge Syndrome

Child's Name: Kylee Rogowski

Surgery Date : 12/13/11

Diagnosis: Necrotic pneumonia

Child's Age and Interest: 2 years and 3 months  loves books

Share your story: My granddaughter Kylee was entrusted into our care a few weeks ago, she wasn't feeling well, I took her to the doctor who said it was just a cold, she kept getting sicker, hurt all over and high fevers. She was a sick baby. I finally got her sent to the ER, they said something is not right and sent her to children's, where they are narrowing down what is her illiness, its necrotic pneumonia, a bad comlicated pneumonia, they put her under to drain the pus and put a drain tube in her to drain out the bad stuff, she is on strong antibiotics, but it will be a long while before she is back to normal. I hope to have her home within the week.