All Gas, Noah Breaks For This Team

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta saved the life of our then fifteen-month-old son Noah earlier this year. Noah was admitted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta for flu A which caused him to go into respiratory failure. He was intubated and after several days on a ventilator suffered a significant pneumothorax (in layman’s terms, he had a hole in his lungs that was pouring air into his body). He was put on ECMO which is one of the highest risk procedures in medicine, to allow his lungs to completely collapse and heal, while the ECMO machine drained the blood from his tiny body, oxygenated it, and pumped it back in. We would have called it science fiction if we hadn’t seen it with our own eyes.

After all of that, 14 days on ECMO and a total of 22 days of being intubated, Noah is a perfectly healthy nineteen-month-old little boy. We know he would not have survived without Children’s and a thrilled to support their life-saving work. Thank you for helping us support them as they continue their incredible work!