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(By – Barbara Sadick, Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Stan and XuXia Smith learned from an ultrasound midway through the pregnancy that their son would\u00a0be born with an often-fatal congenital heart defect. In the first week of the baby\u2019s life, they got more\u00a0bad news: Some major organs were incorrectly formed and mislocated inside Travis\u2019s tiny body. They faced a long\u00a0journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I\u2019d been hit by a tidal wave. I couldn\u2019t process the information I was being given fast enough, and I knew we\u2019d\u00a0need someone to help us translate and evaluate the enormous amount of information we were being bombarded with,\u201d Stan\u00a0Smith said. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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