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>> We come here every year.
It's a great way to reconnect with the doctors
and say thank you once again and show off
how great Braden is doing, and it's now our
second home.
>> These people here, the doctors especially,
I see some of the nurse who was with me.
We still like a family.
>> All the people come together from everywhere.
Like I met someone that came from Virginia,
and it's cool how they come and they, just
like me and all the kids, have fun here.
>>The kids have a blast.
Face painting, mummers; I saw 
Rapunzel over there.
We spoil the kids cause they 
deserve to be spoiled.
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>> At my 18 week ultrasound and blood work,
we found out that Braden had spina bifida,
and at that time they had offered 
the fetal surgery here at CHOP.
>> When we first learned of his diagnosis,
there wasn't really too much hope, and when
we came out here, met the doctors, met the
staff, four years later you know, he's defying
all odds.
>> We were told that there were 
some abnormalities in her brain.
My original OB doctor did tell us that we
should consider terminating.
They referred us here to CHOP, and this was
the only place that gave us hope.
>> Just the relationship we formed with the
team here when we first met them before we
even had the surgery, we just knew 
that was the right fit.
Felt like family from the first 
day we came in.
>> When you operate and save 
a child, you save a lifetime.
>> Seventeen years ago I was born here in
CHOP,  and I had a teratoma cervical, and I
was about like the third 
kid ever to have one.
>> He was born with a lymphatic malformation,
and he had a compromised airway.
>> She was born with an oral pharyngeal teratoma.
Before she was born they removed the outside
of the tumor, they placed a trach, and then
they cut the umbilical cord, 
so she was born twice.
>> I was born in 1997.
I was diagnosed with CDH, congenital diaphragmatic
hernia, and ever since then, we've been coming
back.
>> They taught us that life is, I don't know,
deeper; it's not so superficial.
Her disability and his disability does not
define who they are, and they are our gifts.
>> Children's Hospital will always hold a
special place in my heart.
I'm going to the University of Florida; I'm
planning to major in Biomedical Engineering,
and I actually want to go to med school and
become a physician.
So, it's actually the people here that inspired
me to do that.
>> I just love everybody here.
It's amazing what they do here.
>> I hope CHOP continue 
doing what they're doing.
>> Who knows what's going to 
happen in the next 21 years.
Hopefully, people won't have to go through
as much as, you know maybe, we're going through
now, maybe there'll be more preventative care,
and that's why we donate, and that's why we're
part of the CHOP family.
>> I can't believe I'm here.
>> Everybody that's here right now is
grateful to be here because of the inspiration
of their child being here.
>> We're extremely grateful for all the, you
know, the blessings we've had and the work
of the doctors and the nurses.
And so without the Center for Fetal Diagnosis
& Treatment, the course of Madison's life
would have been much different.
So, we're just extremely grateful 
for Children's Hospital.
>> They're like angels sent from heaven; that's
what I call them all the time.
Because the day I arrived here I had no hope,
and the day I left here I had hope, and that
is what they gave me, hope.
