Northeast Ohio mom providing hope for other parents, caregivers of children with medical complexities

Emily Whiting is a doting, patient and playful mom to three little ones, pushing them on the swings, coloring on the sidewalk with chalk and providing snacks on a hot summer day, but five years ago, Whiting didn’t know if the reality of carefree playing with her oldest child would be achievable.

The scan revealed that their child, Charlotte, had anomalies from head to toe: the brain, heart, liver, abdomen, kidneys and a cleft lip or palate. “I don’t think the doctors knew what odds to give her. Every time I would push for a prognosis and a ’how is this going to turn out?’ I would get the answer, ‘we will see, we don’t know,’” she said.

“We connected over this shared bond of the trauma of it all, and seeing all the care gaps that were out there for these children and for these families, and we were so inspired of what we had provided each other, and we wanted to provide that for other people,” said Whiting.“It’s one thing to have people feel for you; it’s a whole other thing to have people feel with you,” she said.

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