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Labor Day is All Wrong!
I always thought the powers that be in the U.S. got the name wrong – Labor Day. Since it’s a Holiday intended to be just that, a Holiday – I would think the proper name would be Relax Day or Lazy Day or Off Day or Sleep-in Day, something other than Labor Day. Unfortunately, most celebrate Labor Day by doing just that – Laboring. Government employees and Bank’s typically close up shop on Labor Day, but according to recent studies the majority of Americans are laboring on Labor Day. So to celebrate the month of September and the affection for Laboring, I have a special announcement to make: I will be Laboring, but for a very special reason. Right now, many would-be homeowners and home sellers are caught in a catch 22. They are nervous about moving or the opposite, desperate to make a move. This is why we have developed a special program for those you know that are considering a move.
Just like the weather seasons come and seasons go, so do the seasons of life. I’m sure you have noticed, as I have, the older I get the faster the seasons move by. These “seasons of life” go by so fast, my hope is that you enjoy each one or at least grow from each one. Yes. Some of life’s seasons will be HOT and others will be COLD, some high and some low. The lows we want to move by quickly, the highs we want to stay in forever sometimes. #coreychambers
This is where you come in…
For the month of September, if you or anyone you know is considering making a move to a new home, we will Guarantee a minimum $10,000 Savings for every $200,000 in sales price on the home purchase or I will pay the difference*. You read it correctly – my labor saves you and those you know considering making a move a nice chunk of change. The reason why I can make such a special offer is simply because our long track record of selling homes and specialized knowledge allows us to negotiate the best deal on the best home for our best clients. #realestate #newsletter
IN THIS ISSUE: VOL 5, ISSUE 9 SEPTEMBER 2019
- HAPPY LABOR DAY
- How Your Referrals Help Kids
- And Much More #realestate #newsletter
Even if YOU are not moving, you can still benefit
Each month in my special SoCal Home Newsletter, I ask “Who do you know that may be considering a move?”
This is because YOUR referrals help the kids…
Anyone you know considering making a move, wanting to buy or sell their home, please refer them to me without hesitation. They will receive the guarantee I detailed above and you can rest assured your referrals will help the kids at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
With a guarantee like this, you, your friends, neighbors, work associates and family members who may be considering a move can now do so and avoid the uncertainties in the marketplace.
If you missed last month’s SoCal Home Newsletter, we are on a mission to raise $25,000 for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Helping Hands Fund, so we are donating a good portion of our income from home sales to them. As you know Children’s does a tremendous job of helping kids fight through and survive nasty life-threatening diseases like Cancers, Leukemia and non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: stuff that many times rob the life right out of young people.
Kids under their care are 300% more likely to enter into remission IF they can get into the recovery center. BUT, the Recovery Center survives on Sponsorships and Donations. So YOUR REFERRALS REALLY DO HELP THE KIDS…
Who do you know considering buying or selling a home you could refer to my real estate sales team?
Not only will they benefit from our award-winning service, but we donate a substantial portion of our income on every home sale to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Helping Hands Fund.
Your Referrals Really Do Help the Kids…
I want to make it easy to refer your friends, neighbors, associates or family members considering making a move.
You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info online or forward the link to who you know considering a move.
Over the last two decades of helping thousands of families sell their home and/or buy another, we have met some wonderful, loving, caring people. People like you! So your referrals, those you know considering a move, that we help – you 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 from the transaction will go toward a very worthy cause.
It’s easy to refer your friends, neighbors, associates or family members considering making a move. Simply go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com or, of course, you can always call me direct as well at 213-880-9910.
I hope you and your family are well and this Independence Day brings you much joy and happiness. With all my appreciation.
Corey Chambers, Broker Associate, Realty Source Inc
213-880-9910
P.S. We love honoring our past clients like you. Read all about that at www.ReferralsHelpKids.com
It’s easy to refer those you know considering buying or selling a home. You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info on line or forward the link to who you know considering a move. You can also call me direct or pass my number on: 213-880-9910.
Why I Support Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
I grew up right here in Los Angeles. Born right nearby at St. Francis Hospital. I remember when I first heard about a young person close to our family suffering from a nasty 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 any way that I can 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 similar commitments to their patients. And since their services survive on sponsorships and donations we are happy to contribute and proud to support them.
Sincerely,
213-880-9910
Below is the story of a patient so young and so undaunted by his ailments that he compels us to want to face our adversities more bravely.
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‘A Rare Disease, But Not For Us’
Two doctors’ research into an obscure field changed this 3-year-old’s life
by Michael Y. Park
It was obvious there was a problem as soon as Oliver was born.
Oliver’s birth in 2015 was already complicated—he was in a breech position and had to be delivered via a cesarean section. But they thought everything was still going to be OK until Oliver was out.
“All is going well until there’s a moment when the doctor says, ‘Hey, hang on, guys, it’s going to be a little longer. He’s stuck,’” says Oliver’s mother, Jennifer. “And then she said, ‘Call Peds,’ and the mood in the room completely shifted. We asked what was going on, and she said, ‘There’s a bump. He’s got a big bump.’”
“Once the team rushed in, that’s when panic set in,” Peter, Oliver’s father, added. “They said it was nothing they had seen before. ‘We’re not sure what it is.’ They threw out words like ‘tumor,’ ‘cyst,’ ‘cancer.’ That’s when we knew we were in trouble.”
What Oliver had was a 12-ounce mass under his arm that prevented it from going lower than a waving position. It was a lymphatic malformation: Instead of the usual clear, straw-colored lymphatic fluid draining through innumerable tiny channels, it was developing into large cysts. The vessels that were supposed to keep the fluid flowing instead ballooned and grew into a liquid-filled sac larger than a grapefruit.
The doctors at the delivery hospital quickly got in touch with the Vascular Anomalies Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Oliver’s family met with Dean Anselmo, MD.
Dr. Anselmo is a Pediatric Surgeon and Co-director of the Vascular Anomalies Center at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which serves children with malformations of the veins, arteries, and lymphatic channels. He founded the Center, recognizing that the disorder wasn’t widely understood and that a dedicated team of specialists would be better able to devise treatments that could improve the lives of children with these rare, often disfiguring—and sometimes fatal—vascular issues. The specialty is still so obscure and little understood that there isn’t even a dedicated U.S. medical association.
“When I first started in pediatric surgery, there was really almost no data or literature about sclerotherapy for vascular malformations, so a lot of these kids underwent multiple disfiguring surgeries,” he says. “I’m actively hoping for treatments that take me, the surgeon, out of the picture. We’ve changed the paradigm for a lot of these things.”
Initially, the center started with Dr. Anselmo, a plastic surgeon, and an interventional radiologist, but the strides they’ve made in the field have added to the composition of the team, which now also includes a dermatologist, hematologist-oncologist and a number of other professionals who’ve combined their expertise to devise the best ways to help their tiny patients.
“I’ve been fortunate in that I haven’t had to do a tremendous amount of recruitment,” Dr. Anselmo says. “We got Dr. Minnelly Luu, our dermatologist, to join the clinic simply because she has expertise in the area and wanted to be a part of the team.”
The Vascular Anomalies Center has studied the effectiveness of doxycycline, an antibiotic, in treating malformations; published several papers on various surgeries for lymphatic anomalies; and helped shed light on when surgery is and isn’t the best option for kids with the condition. They’ve uncovered a lymphatic disorder that was often mistaken for but distinct from another and come up with a treatment for lymphatic leak syndrome, a defect in the all-encompassing part of the immune system that helps circulate and regenerate various fluids the body needs to survive.
But one of the most successful treatments the Vascular Anomalies team settled on for the majority of lymphatic malformation cases is a multi-stage approach that involves draining the fluid from abnormal vessels and lymphatics and injecting them with a sclerosant, a scarring agent, before having a surgeon treat any excess skin and residual malformation. It turned out to be a much less traumatic and more effective method than going in and cutting out the tissue to treat certain anomalies—like the one Oliver was born with.
“It was on the order of 1 in 5,000 to 10,000 births—this is a rare disease, but not for us,” says Dr. Anselmo. “We’re now one of the largest multidisciplinary vascular clinics in the western United States, and we see kids not just from Southern California but the Middle East, South America, and Asia. These are such rare diseases not really understood by the general medical community that it requires a specialized clinic. It was kind of fortunate that Oliver was born in a city where a vascular anomalies clinic exists. If he were out in some other state where kids don’t have access, then oftentimes these patients are given the wrong diagnosis, and the treatments that are done can cause harm to these kids.”
Oliver’s first and most important procedure took place in February 2016.
“It was the most unbelievable experience—as parents, obviously excruciating for us—but the level of care and kindness literally from that woman down at the Starbucks who smiles at you and knows the pain you’re in, to the woman who cleans the room, to the nurses and doctors,” Jennifer said.
Chadi Zeinati, MD, Director of Interventional Radiology at CHLA, drained the fluid from Oliver’s cyst and then injected the solution that would shrink the large cysts and prevent them from ballooning again. And it worked.
“Since this was such a large malformation, I decided to place a drain in it to help keep it deflated after the sclerosant was injected,” says Dr. Zeinati. “This allowed me to treat the problem multiple times with only one, minimally invasive procedure.”
“Oliver responded remarkably well, and his malformation diminished dramatically,” Dr. Anselmo says, adding that the Center sees about a 95% success rate with sclerotherapy for lymphatic malformations.
But it wasn’t a walk in the park.
“Sclerotherapy is very painful,” Jennifer said. “We were holding Oliver, and he was not having a good day at that point, and this doctor we’d never met comes over and gave me a hug, saying, ‘You looked like you needed a hug.’ That’s the kind of people we met [at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles].”
That kindness later inspired Jennifer to start the #WeAreLucky campaign to raise money for other families of children treated at CHLA.
There were still a couple more treatments to go, including home visits and plastic surgery for his skin, but Oliver is on track to make a complete recovery.
“The point to take home is that these vascular malformations, the type Oliver had, cannot be entirely managed by one type of physician alone,” Dr. Anselmo says. “It needs to be a team effort. And now he’s a happy, healthy little boy with no residual component of this left, and the likelihood of recurrence is exceedingly low.”
“Multidisciplinary clinics are key to running and managing complex disease processes properly,” says Dr. Zeinati. “They speed up the work-up and management of these patients who may have been bounced around for years from one doctor to another. As the treatment algorithm improves in this ever-changing field, genetic mapping of these diseases and research into targeted medical therapy will hopefully be the future.”
Thanksgiving was a little extra special two and a half years later for Drs. Anselmo and Zeinati, not because of the food and company—which were, by all accounts, excellent—but because of how ordinary it was. Specifically, how ordinary the scene was on the living room floor, where their hosts’ children were playing as the adults chatted. And specifically, because of how ordinary that one 3-year-old child—the middle boy—was as he played. You would never have been able to tell that Oliver had been incapable of lowering his arm below his shoulder.
“Oliver’s a cute little guy, really funny,” Dr. Anselmo says. “Like a typical 3-year-old. He’s really into garbage trucks.”
Dr. Anselmo now counts Oliver’s family as close friends, and, as they broke bread, guests went around the table recounting what they felt thankful for. Every one of them said they were thankful for Drs. Anselmo and Zeinati.
“Had it been 20 or 40 years earlier, we’d be writing a much different story about Oliver today,” Peter says. “And I thank my stars every day that these guys exist, that they took an interest in the field, and that they’re able to conduct this research and perform. It wasn’t a lifesaving procedure, but it was life-altering, and the trajectory of my son’s life is not only different but so much better because of what they do.”
How you can help
Refer your friends, neighbors, associates or family members considering making a move: www.ReferralsHelpKids.com or call Corey 213-880-9910
Article and photos courtesy Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
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