Month: October 2023

The month of October can be a spooky month, maybe even a scary month with monstrous problems. Yikes!! Well maybe not, but words like that seem to be popping up everywhere as kids and adults alike look forward to Halloween.

In fact, according to USA Today, adults spend more on themselves to celebrate Halloween than any other day during the year. I get that. Especially if they want to hang out with the kids to go trick or treating, or to a Halloween party of some kind.

Many homeowners and homebuyers though are truly scared. Scared to death of how in the world they are going to get out of their house and into their next one (the trick).

My Treat: As a result of working with hundreds of families over the years, we have developed a special program to help home sellers and homebuyers. We will guarantee the sale of their present home at a price agreeable to them, and in the unlikely event their home does not sell, we’ll buy it. Now that is how you turn a trick into a real treat.

AND remember… YOUR referrals help the kids.

My heart breaks for many young people and families who will not be able to enjoy this fun time of the year out trick or treating or going to Halloween parties.

As you know, tragedy falls on many in this life. Tragedies like sickness, cancers and other nasty diseases. We aim to do what we can to help kids who are unable to get out and have fun right now, Due to these evil health problems.

My team and I are addicted to helping you and those you know buy or sell the place they call home. In fact, it is a race to help as many as possible so we can GIVE more away.

A CORE philosophy at our company is ‘the size of the hole you give thru is directly proportionate to the size of the hole you receive thru.

Therefore, our Mission is to Go Serve Big!!! Serve you, serve those you refer to us and of course, serve a great cause.

#CHLA #www.referralshelpkids.com

If you or a friend are thinking about selling, make sure you choose a real estate company that you can trust — a real estate company with experience, proven results and a give-back philosophy!

Your Referrals Help the Kids. For every referral I receive, I donate a portion to the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. With your referrals, you are helping Children’s Hospital ensure that critical life-saving care is available to every child they treat. http://www.ReferralsHelpKids.com

Below is a story about a very special family.

Why I support Childrenʼs Hospital of Los Angeles

I grew up right here in the Greater Los Angeles Area, born in Los Angeles County at St. Francis Hospital. I remember when I first heard about a young person close to our family suffering from a serious disease and getting treated for that at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. It was then that I began to pay closer attention to the work they do at that hospital. Since then, I have learned that it is a collection of hard-working health care professionals, most making their home right here in the Los Angeles area, all coming together for a common cause. That cause is to help young people overcome unfortunate health issues that life sometimes throws our way. Being a Los Angeles Area California native, I take pride in supporting in a way that I can do the good work these people do at Children’s. My team rallies around our annual goal of raising money and donating portions of our income to help Children’s in their quest to heal young people when they need healing. My team and I are committed to providing outstanding results for buyers and sellers referred to us by our past clients. I have discovered that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles shares a similar commitment to their patients. And since their services survive on sponsorships and donations, we are happy to contribute and proud to support them.
Sincerely,

Corey Chambers

*seller and Corey must agree on price and time of possession. Corey Chambers, Broker DRE#01889449

A real estate company with experience, proven results and a give-back philosophy! 

Over the years of helping many families sell their homes and/or buy another, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring people. People like you! So your referrals can rest assured that, not only will they get the award-winning service we are known for and the guarantee to back it up, but that a solid portion of the income we receive will go toward helping the kids.

Refer your friends, neighbors, associates, or family members considering making a move

You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info on line or forward the link to someone you know considering a move. 

Of course, you can always call me direct as well at 213-880-9910 

After Beating Liver Cancer, Aaroh Gets the Gift of Life — by Sara Jones

Chantal was seated on the couch watching TV when her 17-month-old son, Aaroh, made his way over to her from where he had been playing on the floor. He pulled himself upright between her knees, turned to face the television, and immediately got the real reward: belly rubs from mom. That was his favorite way to watch TV, and something they did often. Except this time, Chantal felt a hard spot on one side of his stomach.

“That’s weird,” she thought, as she nervously called her older son, Elijah, over for his own belly rub. Chantal didn’t feel anything hard when she pressed on Elijah’s belly. She called her mom, sister and best friend to ask for their advice. “They all said the same thing: Get Aaroh to the doctor.”

At the pediatrician’s office, Chantal tried to stay upbeat. “I went there half expecting the doctor to kick me out and tell me, ‘It’s his ribs, go away,’” she says with a chuckle. Unfortunately, that’s not what happened. The hard spot wasn’t his ribs or an organ, the pediatrician said, and the only way to know definitively was through X-rays, an MRI or a CT scan.

Aaroh’s pediatrician, who previously had worked at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, called ahead to make sure a care team was expecting his arrival. Chantal drove straight to the hospital’s Maurice Marciano Family Foundation Emergency Department and Trauma Center. They sat down after checking in, prepared for a lengthy wait, when a doctor approached and asked, “Are you Chantal, mother of Aaroh? Come with me.”

“My heart was in my feet as I was following her,” Chantal says. “I thought, OK, either our pediatrician is the mayor of Children’s Hospital and has all kinds of connections, or this is not good.”

An unexpected journey

On that day in November 2021, a CT scan revealed something Chantal could never have imagined: two tumors on Aaroh’s liver. Within hours, he was moved to a room on the fourth floor of the Marion and John E. Anderson Pavilion, which Chantal says became their new home.

Aaroh was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma—a pediatric liver cancer, usually seen within the first three years of a child’s life. Although considered rare, with 50 to 70 cases occurring in the U.S. each year, hepatoblastoma is the most commonly occurring liver cancer in children.

“We literally had to begin everything the next day,” says Chantal, “and it was just so fast-paced, so overwhelming.”

Aaroh’s first surgery was a port placement, and a few days after that he started chemotherapy. His oncologist, Fariba Navid, MD, spent time with the family, carefully explaining the entire treatment protocol: six rounds of chemo and a liver transplant. In addition to treating patients with bone and soft tissue tumors, Dr. Navid serves as the Medical Director of Clinical Research in the Cancer and Blood Disease Institute at CHLA.

“Dr. Navid explained that with the first two rounds of chemo, what they were looking for was to ensure that the tumor responded well to chemo, that it shrunk,” Chantal says. “And in January [2022], she had already scheduled us for an intake session with the Liver Transplant team. I said, ‘Are you sure? How about a resection? Maybe the chemo will take care of everything?’ But based on her experience, she knew Aaroh would more than likely need a liver transplant.”

“Aaroh had tumors in both lobes,” Dr. Navid explains. “He was not a candidate for surgical resection because the surgeon would not be able to remove all of the tumors and leave enough normal liver behind to survive.”

Aaroh tolerated the chemotherapy well, and when January came, Chantal and Dr. Navid met with the Liver Transplant Program nurse coordinator as well as Yuri Genyk, MD, Chief of the Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and Surgical Director of Liver and Intestinal Transplant at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Together they reviewed Aaroh’s chart and determined that he was a good candidate for a transplant.

On Jan. 31, 2022, less than two weeks after he was placed on the transplant list, Chantal got a call about a possible match. Two days later, Aaroh got his new liver. After the successful surgery, Aaroh was doing well, but he still needed to complete additional chemotherapy to give him the best possible long term outcome.

“With Aaroh’s stage of hepatoblastoma, there is about a 15% likelihood of the cancer recurring,” says Dr. Navid. “Aaroh finishing the final four rounds of chemo was very important—to ensure the best chance of it not returning.”

‘Angels in scrubs’

Despite some side effects, Aaroh pulled through from his post-transplant chemotherapy like a champ. Most days now you’ll find the happy 3-year-old wrestling with his big brother, playing music on one of his many instruments, or obsessing over trash trucks.

Chantal is forever grateful to Aaroh’s liver donor and the family who lost their own child while giving hers the gift of life. She is also thankful for the wonderful team of caregivers in the Cancer and Blood Disease Institute that helped her and Aaroh get through the darkest days.

“They instinctively know how to meet you where you are, to help you acknowledge, accept and absorb what’s happening to you and your kid,” Chantal says. “Some days in our journey were awful, but they were just amazing, like angels in scrubs.” — Story and photos courtesy Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

The Liver Transplant Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of the largest pediatric liver transplant programs in the United States. Since it was founded in 1998, the program has performed 470 transplants—with roughly one-third of them coming from living donors. That’s a major reason why the median wait time for a new liver is roughly only 3 ½ months at CHLA—versus about 10 ½ months regionally and nearly eight months nationally. The Liver Transplant Program is part of CHLA’s Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation and the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, which is ranked No. 5 in the nation for Gastroenterology and GI Surgery by U.S. News & World Report. — Learn more about the Cancer and Blood Disease Institute at CHLA.

How You Can Help

Refer your friends, neighbors, associates, or family members considering making a move: www.ReferralsHelpKids.com or call Corey at 213-880-9910

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