You will not believe this, but Facebook banned our post from last week from being boosted (promoted) to viewers of Facebook. If you recall, it included a black & white photo of 2-week old Jude , resting in bed with lots of tubes in him after his heart transplant....
This week at Yellow Door, well actually last week, we welcomed our 19th family! One-month-old Jude is our youngest patient to date. He underwent a heart transplant at TWO WEEKS OLD, which is hard to fathom! The little guy is still being weened off his sedation meds,...
This week at Yellow Door we welcomed 5-month-old Gabe and his family to our "Dreamers" apartment. Gabe and his 6-year-old sister Annie are both being treated for Cystic Fibrosis. During a routine exam, Gabe was found to have a coarctation of the aorta, a narrowing of...
This week at Yellow Door we welcome our 16th family - 16 year old Jadan and her parents - from just outside Roanoke, VA. Jadan was diagnosed late last year with End Stage Renal (kidney) failure. For the high school honor student, the diagnosis came out of the blue....
Sincere thanks to everyone who came out for our Yellow Door Birthday celebration and Open House! It was a big success, not to mention a lot of fun! We so appreciate HotCakes, Paris Cake Co., Albemarle Cider Works, Random Row Brewing Co., and Stone Creek Village...
All of a sudden 16 year-old Grayson , pictured above right, was unable to walk. His spinal cord tumor, originally diagnosed when he was 5 years old, had grown. While at UVA Children's Hospital for a tumor resection, he and his family received a new diagnosis of Stage...
Malakai Bennett January 1, 2018-May 23, 2019 Our hearts are broken! A sincere thanks to everyone who has made Yellow Door a success.
We have lots of good news this week at the Yellow Door Foundation! One of the first families served by Yellow Door was that of little Khansaa. Her mom Sephida had not held her baby girl for the first 7 months of her life while Khansaa was in the ICU awaiting a new...
This week at Yellow Door we have great news! Jacob has gotten his new heart and was released "home" to a Yellow Door apartment for his recovery and monitoring. Mom and sister Elaynah are with him during the week and dad visits on weekends. Jacob and family are the...
This week at Yellow Door we welcome Thomas and his grandparents to our Dreamer House. Thomas is 11 and will be at UVA Children's Hospital for several months fighting cancer. Sadly, he has been sidetracked with pneumonia, but is doing better. His grandma said "his...