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Introducing My Daughter to Advocacy

by Anne Gammon on Thursday, Feb 11, 2016

Washing dishes at my sink Monday morning, it seemed hard to fathom that just a week ago I was in Washington, D.C., for the kick off to the 2016 Congenital Heart Legislative Conference. This was my fourth advocacy day, but it had been several years since I was last able to be present. Even more noteworthy, it was the first time I would attend with my daughter with congenital heart disease, Shay, age 15.

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Celebrate Heart Month with Advocacy Day

by Anne Gammon on Monday, Feb 03, 2014

The deadline to register for this year’s Advocacy Day, which is Feb. 26-27, is in just a few days. If you have never attended, please consider doing so; an empowering and inspirational day awaits.

The first year I attended was in 2009, representing a pediatric organization as our daughter with CHD, Shay, was just 8 years old. For so many years, we had thought of Shay’s life in terms of days and eventually years, but never decades.

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