Family Struggles with Matters of the Heart; Complications After Infant's Surgeries Challenge Parents' Hope for Normalcy
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › October 09, 2005
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It was a joyous spring day as Gina and Jim Spicka walked into their Town of Vernon home with their infant daughter, Paige, hoping, finally, for a semblance of normalcy after a three-month hospital drama.
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Family Struggles with Matters of the Heart; Complications After Infant's Surgeries Challenge Parents' Hope for Normalcy
Their inconsolable baby was addicted to morphine.
Paige Elizabeth Spicka was born Feb. 10 at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a congenital condition that leaves four out of 10,000 babies essentially with half a heart. She approached death and spent so much time in an intensive care unit recovering from two major heart surgeries and other procedures, by the time she was released from the hospital, she had been on morphine much of her thre...See the full content of this document
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