I’ve reached many more followers here in the last couple days. I thought I’d share a picture of Charlee, just 3 days old here.. still at the hospital. Alert, perfect and ready to go home. We had two perfect weeks at home before her cardiac arrest. Something I obviously could never quite replicate after each of her brother’s births. There’s nothing like your first born. I was so young, naive and honestly blissfully unaware. To be honest working at a Level 1 children’s hospital at the time, I was most focused on congenital heart defects, since the population I cared for disproportionately suffered from them compared to the general pediatric population. The idea that a “routine” vaccination would take my daughter from me was never something that ever crossed my mind. Charlee should be turning 9 this Wednesday, May 6th. A third grader. Maybe playing soccer or softball with friends. Maybe dancing. Counting down the days until summer break. Her life was taken far too soon—and that loss stays with me every single day. This must stop. @NicoleShanahan @HighWireTalk @SecKennedy @MaryBowdenMD @SenRonJohnson