Parents are the unsung heroes
Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 06:00
in Health & Medicine
It's a parents worst nightmare, a newborn baby going under the knife to repair a heart defect. If the baby survives, that's when the real work begins for parents. University of Alberta nursing professor Gwen Rempel has seen hundreds of babies on the brink as a former paediatric cardiology nurse; she wanted to find out just what parents go through...