Life was busy during May 2014 for Robe and Meridith Whittemore, a firefighter and event planner raising a toddler girl in Point Loma. These active, beach-loving parents were eagerly expecting their second child. Yet everything changed at 37 weeks, when routine ultrasound showed blood on their baby’s brain. Doctors ordered an emergency C-section, and rushed their baby to intensive care at Rady Chil …
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When Patrick Sy plays superhero, you can believe him. At just three years old, he became a super donor for his big sister and best buddy, Rina Sy, who was diagnosed with leukemia shortly before Mother’s Day last year. Parents Marianne and Keith Sy spent several months at Rina’s hospital bedside, helping her endure three initial grueling rounds of chemotherapy. Anxious and exhausted, they tried to …
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