Corey Chambers Real Estate Newsletter September 2021 – The SoCal Home

Corey Chambers SoCal Home Newsletter
Corey Chambers SoCal Home Newsletter September 2021

The SoCal Home  —  More Than Real Estate News

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 banks typically close 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 7, ISSUE 9  SEPTEMBER 2021

  •  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

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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,

Corey Chambers 213-880-9910

 

Below is the story of a patient who’s life was turned around by Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.  Take a brief moment to consider what it must have been like to walk a mile in her shoes.

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After Brain Surgery and Chemotherapy, Florence Gets a Fresh Start

Florence at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Florence at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles when she was admitted in August 2020
 

“I feel like it’s spring, and the flowers are brighter, and the grass is greener,” says the toddler’s mom about her daughter completing treatment for a life-threatening brain tumor.

By Eunice Oh.  Photos and story courtesy Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

An emergency room during a pandemic was the last place Eugenia and Richard wanted to be. But they desperately wanted answers.

A week earlier, their 22-month-old daughter, Florence, had started to feel sick, throwing up in the early mornings, with no signs of improvement.

An initial visit to their pediatrician’s office had them thinking it was the stomach flu, but after seeking a second opinion—from a doctor who had trained at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and told them to go there immediately—Eugenia and Richard found themselves rushing across town. In the CHLA Emergency Department, Florence was examined and underwent a CT scan. Then came the devastating news.

“I just remember two physicians walking in with a box of Kleenex,” recalls Eugenia. “Our hearts sank, and our world just totally fell apart.”

Florence in March 2021, after completing six rounds of chemo and undergoing a stem cell transplant
Florence in March 2021, after completing six rounds of chemo and undergoing a stem cell transplant

Coordinated, expert care

Eugenia and Richard were told that Florence had a tumor in her brain, which pathology tests would later confirm was cancerous. More specifically, she had medulloblastoma, a fast-growing Grade IV tumor that needed to be removed.

Florence was admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles that night. Before performing surgery, doctors needed to drain the buildup of fluid deep within her brain. Caused by the tumor, the fluid was blocking one of the ventricles. A few days later, after she was stabilized, Florence was ready for surgery.

Neurosurgeons Jason Chu, MD, MSc, from the Neurological Institute, and Mark D. Krieger, MD, Senior Vice President and Surgeon-in-Chief, removed the mass during a six-hour procedure. Then, after Florence recovered from surgery, oncologists from the Cancer and Blood Disease Institute took over. Because of the aggressive nature of medulloblastomas, Tom Davidson, MD, George Michaiel, MD, and Kim Bira, DNP, recommended that Florence start chemotherapy right away.

“We were so grateful for each provider’s expertise and truly felt like we were at the best place for Florence,” says Eugenia.

A spring renewal

Being a clinical nurse specialist, Eugenia knew the challenges the care team faced as they navigated COVID-19 while trying to keep immunocompromised patients, like Florence, safe. But she soon developed an even deeper appreciation for her daughter’s care providers.

“Throughout our entire journey, everyone was just so patient, understanding, kind and reassuring,” she says. “Even though they knew I was a nurse, they first saw me as a mom.”

After six rounds of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant—and her latest MRI showing no signs of disease—Florence is “doing fantastic,” according to her mom. She hasn’t needed any blood transfusions, and her hair is starting to grow back. You wouldn’t be able to tell she ever had cancer.

“I feel like it’s spring, and the flowers are brighter, and the grass is greener,” says Eugenia. “Florence will need to be monitored for the next 10 years, but we know that moving forward we’re in good hands. We’re just so grateful for the amazing care we received.”

That gratitude led Eugenia to send the following message to Ara Balkian, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Director of Inpatient Operations at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, which captures her family’s journey in more detail:

Dear Dr. Balkian, 

I wanted to take a moment to thank you for rallying for our family when my daughter was diagnosed with a grade 4 brain tumor last August. You, Dr. Krieger, Dr. Jason Chu, and Dr. Jen Lau came to our bedside multiple times to check in on us, and to ensure that Florence had the best surgery and post-op care. Never in a million years would I have imagined that we would find ourselves so abruptly thrust into the patient/family side of health care in the height of a pandemic.

I can only imagine what an incredibly tough year it has been for you, especially as leaders in health care, and I wanted you to know that despite how chaotic it might have been, you still managed to impact our family on a very personal level. Florence had her end of treatment MRI [recently] and there is no evidence of disease. Treatment was successful! We are just so grateful for her health, the great care we received and for your incredible institution. We also couldn’t have had a better oncology team than Dr. Tom B. Davidson, Dr. George Michaiel, Kim Bira, DNP, and the nurses on 4 West.

In addition, I am so impressed with the nursing care and the fact that Florence managed to have no central line infection for the duration of her seven months of having a Medcomp apheresis catheter. The CVC [central venous catheter] NPs have admirable clinical expertise and the CVC classes for parents were very well designed. Moreover, every single nurse we encountered scrubbed the caps for 20 seconds, and let it dry for 10. The education and training to get a whole system to operate consistently in this manner should be celebrated and recognized.

It meant so much to receive personalized care.

Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts,
Eugenia, Richard (my husband), Florence (2.5 years old) and Truman (4 months old)
.

 

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

CHLA Florence hugs her younger brother, Truman
Florence hugs her younger brother, Truman, who was born two months before she underwent a stem cell transplant. Photo courtesy of ANI Portraits/aniportraits.com

Copyright © This free information provided courtesy L.A. Loft Blog and LAcondoInfo.com with information provided by Corey Chambers, Realty Source Inc, BRE#01889449 We are not associated with the homeowner’s association or developer. For more information, contact (213) 880-9910 or visit CoreyChambers.com  Licensed in California. All information provided is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed and should be independently verified. Properties subject to prior sale or rental. This is not a solicitation if buyer or seller is already under contract with another broker

* Corey and buyer / seller must agree on price and time of possession.

Corey Chambers Real Estate Newsletter April 2021 SoCal Home – Your Referrals Help the Kids

Here Comes the Tax Man.  And Here Comes a Tax Break:

TAX Day Delay!! IRS extends tax deadline to May 17, 2021.  I recently read where we were working Jan. 1 through June 30th of each year, just to pay all of our taxes. In Canada, add another month or two. After that, you keep all you make. Prior to that, 100% goes to the government in some form or fashion to pay for some kind of government worker, work program, social program, defense, project, health care, common good, common projects, emergency bailouts etc. Whatever you want to call it, April 15th is usually TAX day; the deadline for filing your federal in-come taxes in the U.S.A. But not this year. #coreychambers #realestate #news

So, in celebration of this special time of year, let’s talk TAX relief. If you received last month’s letter from me, you will recall our goal of trying to raise $25,000.00 for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, the areas #1 Not for Profit Hospital for Young People. But – we need your help and I believe you can benefit from the TAX relief as well.  #chla #referralshelpkids Just down the street from where I am typing this, CHLA has a full house of kids fighting for their lives. For them and their parents’ taxes are not “top of mind”, health is. Living is. Surviving is. As you may have heard, Children’s Hospital is front and center in the fight against nasty diseases that destroy or cut short the lives of Children. Things like Cancer, Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, Leukemia, as well as leading the way in early diagnosis of autism and miracle working around spinal cord injuries. We are thankful to have such a wonderful facility close by, doing such great work to help heal and save young people.   |   Blog Video

So even though we are trying to figure out how much we owe the tax man, many are simply hoping they can be here to actually pay taxes. This is why we here at the Corey Chambers Team have resolved to do what we can to help.

For every house we sell this year, we are donating a portion of our income to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. Our goal, again, is to raise $25,000 to help them in their quest to Heal, Save, Cure and Comfort Children under their care.This is where we need your help and how you can benefit at the same time…

Charitable contributions are tax deductible to a point. Rather than give your money to the government, you should consider making a donation to a charity. I believe it will somehow come back to you, well beyond a simple tax deduction. A core value at our company is “the size of the hole you give through is directly proportionate to the size of the hole you receive through.”  Either way, your referrals are in good hands and help us contribute to a good cause.  Life moves fast for some and we are eager to make the Home Selling and Buying experience a smooth rewarding one. 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, 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 those you know considering buying or selling a home. Here are the options again: 1. 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. 2. Of course you can always call me direct as well at 213-880-9910.

Why I support Children’s Hospital 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 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 healthcare 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 the good work these people do at Children’s. My team rallys around our annual goal or 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 commitment to their patients. And since their services survive on sponsorships and donations, we are happy to contribute and proud to support them.

Sincerely,

P.S. The story of this young person enclosed may cause you to look at your loved ones differently. It did me. Check it out.

It’s easy to refer those you know considering buying or selling a home.  Here are the Options Again:  Enter their contact information at www.ReferralsHelpKids.com, call me direct or pass my number on:  213-880-9910.

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A Pair of Daring Heart Procedures Save Preemie Alex’s Life

Combining expertise with ingenuity, a team of cardiovascular specialists fixes a rare birth defect in a premature baby.

Noa stood at the starting line, slightly crouched down, right foot in front of the left. He was so nervous, he was shaking. — By Jeff Weinstock

Sarah Badran, MD, knows her audience. “Let me know if I lose you, all right?” she says.

An interventional cardiologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Dr. Badran starts into a plainspoken description of blood circulation that she keeps for the layperson, whether an anxious parent or an easily baffled writer.

She calls on it here to illustrate the birth defect that led her to perform a virtually unprecedented cardiac catheterization procedure on tiny Alex, born Oct. 26, 2020, at 26 weeks with his lungs unattached to his heart, creating a disrupted blood flow that threatened his life.

She begins with a familiar association to explain how one’s blood moves oxygen from the lungs out to the body: “The blood is like an Uber driver,” Dr. Badran says. By the time she finishes, Alex’s disorder is understood and ready for retelling.

In normal circulation, the lungs load the blood with oxygen and send it through the pulmonary veins to the heart’s left atrium, and then out to the body’s organs through the aorta. Then depleted of oxygen, the blood returns to the right side of the heart before getting pumped back into the lungs, and the whole circuit repeats. Before birth, this exchange is formed anatomically, as the pulmonary veins become anchored to the back of the left side of the heart.

In rare instances—1 in 10,000 births—that attachment doesn’t develop. The pulmonary veins “just get lost,” Dr. Badran says, draining the blood out elsewhere within the body and leaving it without any road back to the heart, a birth defect called total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR).

“What generally happens is, you have a beautiful little baby, they’re born, and then they turn completely blue. That’s usually a big, big emergency.”

To the liver and back

The condition is not easy to see on a prenatal scan because fetal circulation doesn’t involve the still-developing lungs, but instead draws oxygen from the mother’s placenta, so blood flow tends to appear fine.

Alex’s abnormality wasn’t discovered until a week after he was born, when his breath began to grow short. An echocardiogram revealed he had TAPVR and that his pulmonary veins were depositing blood into his liver. The diagnosis got him transferred to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Alex’s blood, however, was managing to return to his heart through a blood vessel located in the liver called the ductus venosus. The same vessel is employed in utero, though that’s by nature’s design, as it passes oxygenated blood to the heart after receiving it from the umbilical vein, which extends out of the placenta. Shortly after birth, that ductus venosus typically closes off and a new breathing apparatus, led by the lungs, takes over.

The irregularities caused by prematurity may have saved Alex, as his ductus stayed partially open, allowing blood to stream through it and reach his heart. Once there, the blood would pass from the right to left chamber through a hole called the patent foramen ovale, and then, freshly oxygenated, flow out to the body.

“It was a wackadoodle circulation,” Dr. Badran says, “but that’s how he was staying alive.”

The one chance to save him

That passage through the ductus venosus, however, was on its way to sealing shut, so some intervention had to be made. Dr. Badran and her colleague in CHLA’s Heart Institute, Neil Patel, MD, discussed next steps with cardiothoracic surgeon John Cleveland, MD, who would do the open-heart surgery that Alex needed to fix his congenital defect. They agreed that the operation was too risky for a baby so unstable.

The safer option was to wait until Alex developed more, as close to full term as they could get him, before Dr. Cleveland would operate. In the interim, the plan was for Dr. Badran and Dr. Patel to put a stent into the ductus venosus to keep it open so it would continue to convey blood to Alex’s heart.

That decision meant Dr. Badran and Dr. Patel were faced with trying something that, according to Dr. Cleveland, had only been done a handful of times worldwide, and never at Children’s Hospital: stenting a ductus venosus in a premature baby. The procedure is so unusual because TAPVR, as uncommon as it is across all births, is hardly ever reported in preemies.

Dr. Badran and Dr. Patel were unfazed. They were confident they could apply fundamental techniques and their accumulated expertise to an entirely new predicament.

“The thing about pediatric interventional cardiology is that it’s always like that,” Dr. Badran says. “Everything is so rare we’re always kind of engineering our way through these types of situations. I know everything I need to know about premature babies, and I teach embryology in med school. I know everything there is to know about the ductus venosus system, blood flow, and what the vessels are like, how they’re shaped, and why they close and why they open.

“The only chance to save Alex was to try to stent this open, which would not be fixing the problem. It would just basically be making it like he hadn’t been born yet.”

The day after the determination was made to try to install a stent, Alex’s blood pressure and oxygen levels began to fall, signs the ductus venosus was closing. The doctors were compelled to move Alex, only 17 days old, into the catheterization lab. Dr. Badran recounts the delicacy of the procedure—and exults over its success.

“To take this tiny little person,” she says, “and put an IV in his neck vein and try to find this threadlike thing, thinner than a wire—we almost couldn’t find it—then stretch it with a balloon and put a stent in—it was a technical tour de force. It worked, and it stabilized him.”

Restoring the anatomy

He was stabilized but not safe, and would spend the next several weeks watched by neonatologist Jennifer Shepherd, MD, in the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Newborn and Infant Critical Care Unit. “When I heard we were getting a baby who was 26 weeks with obstructed infradiaphragmatic TAPVR,” she says, “my first thought was, how are we going to keep him alive? It just was unheard of.”

As they worked to maintain Alex’s circulation until he reached an age and a weight suitable for surgery, Dr. Shepherd and her team had to respond to any unfavorable movement in his oxygen levels or blood tests. “We had a very low threshold to get echocardiograms to make sure that stent was still open.”

Alex made it to 37 weeks in gestational age, but not without needing more time in the cath lab to keep the stented area from closing. At 37 weeks, imaging showed the ductus venosus was again narrowing, so on Jan. 5, Dr. Cleveland brought Alex to the operating room to establish a connection between his lungs and heart. Though Dr. Cleveland had done the procedure often, Alex’s size—still only 4 pounds—added to the risk.

“Repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous return is a routine operation; we probably see six or seven cases a year,” he says. “There’s just less room for error when children are that small.”

With Alex on the bypass machine and his body cooled to about 65 degrees Fahrenheit, Dr. Cleveland removed his heart from his chest and began the repair. He tied off what he calls the “anomalous pathway,” the ductus venosus that had kept Alex’s blood flowing, then sewed the pulmonary veins to the back of the left atrium, where they should have originally attached. He set Alex’s heart back into his chest, warmed his body up and returned him to intensive care.

“Everything went well,” Dr. Cleveland says. “The goal of the operation was to restore normal anatomy, which we did.”

Follow-up scans have all looked good. With Dr. Patel staying on as Alex’s cardiologist, Dr. Cleveland expects his work has ended. “He’ll get echocardiograms because that’s part of the deal, but this should be the only heart operation he needs for this condition.”

It’s not often that open-heart surgery on a newborn is the postscript, but while it culminated Alex’s heart repair, from all accounts what set it apart was the opening act. Stenting the ductus venosus on a preemie that small was not merely delicate but untried.

“From my review of the literature, nobody else in California had done it,” Dr. Cleveland says. “I think it was a California first.”

While exhilarated by the achievement, Dr. Badran saves her strongest, lengthiest accolades for the efforts of the anesthesiologists and the neonatologists and other support staff, “the village that it took,” she says, to keep Alex intact so she and Dr. Patel could do their work.

“To transport such a tiny baby, that sick, get him safely on the cath lab table without dislodging the breathing tube, and give him the right medications, and the way the nurses and the techs all coordinated, and hospital maintenance heating up the cath lab to 82 degrees to make sure he wouldn’t get cold—they somehow managed to keep him alive while we found that vein.

“We had stented tiny things on lots of babies, getting into small little blood vessels and opening them, but the amount of cooperation and collaboration between all the divisions, it was just a beautiful orchestration of teamwork.”

Article and photos courtesy Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

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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