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Ford's Heart Transplant Submitted by: Maggie Thorsell	Christa, Nick and Ford were transferred from Toronto Sick Kids back to Vancouver where they live and Ford was readmitted to the cardiac unit at their children's hospital. His health has deteriorated and they were told Toronto Sick Kids would take him back and that a heart transplant would be available for him this week. The following is a note from his Dad, Nick, sent on February 8, 2010. It's a go for 6:00am - the Infant Transport Team is slated to start the transfer process of Ford and all his equipment from bed to isolette, to ambulance, to air ambulance, to ambulance, to SickKids. This time I get the pleasure of riding in the Infanta's Lear jet while Christa slums along behind us on Air Canada. We have had another whirlwind few days. Even though we've been back in town for a couple of weeks now we didn't really get much lead time on this latest adventure. Our horrible first week knocked the socks off us both and we had been hiding in a sulky, shell-shocked gloom until the impending departure kicked us in the ass. We've had a chance to visit with close family and friends, who have once again shown us a stunning amount of compassion and generosity - our spirits have been recharged, and buoyed, and hope-filled and we're ready to haul our exhausted butts out of bed in just under 5 hours. Assuming once again that this is the real deal, we're planning to be gone for months - 3-6 to be exact, which includes not only the wait time for a heart but the requisite post-op recovery and period of observation. I spent the last 3 days destroying the art I spent the last year and a half building before emptying my studio at school and bidding it an unsentimental farewell. We've shuffled our living space to make room for the sitters, cleaned to the best of our ability, cancelled our car insurance, patted the cat goodbye, and hopefully have all our loose ends tied off. Though we're sad to be leaving Vancouver, we're really most sad to be leaving all of the nurses and doctors who've gotten to know Ford so well. Hopefully when we return our city will be less an inaccessible, militarized fortress for the world's super-rich and more the sleepy damp village we love so much.	02-10-2010
Little Ford Submitted by: Maggie Thorsell	Little 8 month Ford Couture was born without part of the left side of his heart functioning. He has been in hospital in Edmonton, Vancouver (his home) all but 2 weeks of his life. He and his parents Nick and Christa flew to the Sick Kids in Toronto this past Monday where they are awaiting details of a possible heart transplant for Ford. This family is strong, but struggling with all the concerns of parents in this situation. Part of their healing has been to create a blog where others can follow their journey: lilsesame.blogspot.com Please keep them in your prayers.	12-19-2009

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