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Give hope to a child this Christmas

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Tree of Hope

Give hope to a child this Christmas

Cardinal Glennon kid Conner, green background

Imagine being told that your baby’s heart was backward.

“You are never prepared for anything like this,” Jennifer says. When she was 20 weeks pregnant, her doctor diagnosed baby Conner with heterotaxy, a rare condition in which internal organs are arranged abnormally.

Upon his arrival at 39 weeks, Conner came to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, where doctors quickly determined he would need a heart transplant.

At two months old, Conner got his new heart. “That first year was complete chaos, but I knew God put us at Cardinal Glennon for a reason,” says Jennifer.

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Today, Conner is thriving – a happy, energetic kindergartener with a big personality. “He is hitting developmental milestones by leaps and bounds. I keep telling him that the sky is the limit,” Jennifer says. “He can be anything and do anything if he believes he can!”

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Glennon Kid Conner sitting next to his birthday cake in 2022
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