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Hospital Stay Cheat Sheet - From the Donna Yadrich Library of Unsolicited Wisdom

Donna Yadrich

Hospital Stay Cheat Sheet - From the Donna Yadrich Library of Unsolicited Wisdom

Innumerable days were spent in hospitals, in all actuality, years were spent in the hospital. Below are some things only time and experience can teach. Audrey stayed at St. Mary's Hospital/Mayo Clinic, Children's Hospital Colorado/National Jewish, Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, and pictured below is Audrey about 3-4 years old in The University of Kansas Hospital. Click the blue button for our downloadable Hospital Stay Cheat Sheet Checklist! Start Planning for the Hospital Discharge from the Very Beginning Get necessary notes and orders before anyone signs the discharge papers and you leave the hospital. Start keeping a list of things...

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The Hardest Job I Ever Had

Donna Yadrich

The Hardest Job I Ever Had

Being the parent of a medically complex and fragile child. And all too often absent parent of her brother. The hardest job was my honor, the hardest job inspires AudreySpirit.All Audrey wanted to do was strategize about Labor Day Sales, hang out with friends and start her freshman year of high school. Her older brother, Peter, was also beginning his freshman year away at college. I so wanted to help her get ready for her new school experience and help Peter love college life. I was so tired, I didn’t even feel tired anymore. Tired was just my state of...

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Radio Program Listener Offers Apparel Executive-Level Help to AudreySpirit

Donna Yadrich

A few weeks ago I was invited to talk on our local NPR radio station's Up To Date Program hosted by Steve Kraske and was joined by Dr. Jeff Hornsby, Interim Director, Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation UMKC;  Ryan Bennett, Vice President of Idle Smart; and Mike Farmer - CEO of Leap.it. One of the radio program listeners, an executive of an apparel manufacturing company with international reach, contacted me to offer AudreySpirit his help (as a personal philanthropic gesture!). I met with him and the level of executive and practical guidance he's willing to provide and connect me to "insiders" is no less...

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Logo Design and Brand Colors - Inspired by Audrey

Donna Yadrich

The logo is an evolution of a drawing created by Audrey Grace. As Donna recollects: “The logo is an abstract design by graphic artist, Lee Orrison, based on an original artwork Audrey created. Children’s Mercy Hospital's Teen Advisory Board (TAB) was involved in a project to update posters in the hospital cafeteria. As a member of the board, Audrey brought posterboard home from the teen meeting and drew the picture of a cheerful, welcoming and colorful mouse with an elaborate background. At the following TAB meeting, she turned in her mouse poster. It was mounted in a prominent location in...

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Dance with your Hero - Autoimmune Disease Awareness

Donna Yadrich

About Autoimmune Disease"Autoimmunity is really complex and the group of conditions that fit within autoimmunity are very diverse. They often don’t have a ‘name’ that people recognize and are often really hard to explain. They are not ‘contagious’ – like many people think about ‘diseases’ but are life altering, lifelong and, in the most severe cases, life threatening."  Mara Becker, MD and Keith Mann, MD were gracious enough to share this information about autoimmune disease to help kids understand it better.  Both doctors took great care of Audrey and are among her biggest heroes. Audrey's school peer and dance colleague, MiKaylee, is working...

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