Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation

Before her son was born, Lourdes had many hopes and dreams of what his life would be like. Then those dreams were suddenly shattered by an unexpected diagnosis.
The first warning signs came at a routine ultrasound before Lourdes’ son, Alonzo, was born. Doctors discovered that the baby was measuring very small – in the 1st percentile – and was missing a finger. But Lourdes was determined to do everything she...

Jessica still remembers the moment she knew something was wrong with her daughter, Belle. At first, she thought her toddler was fighting a run-of-the-mill virus. But then, things took a turn for the worse.
“She was so lethargic that she couldn’t eat or drink. She could barely hold her head up,” said Jessica. “I knew something wasn’t right.”...

“We have a diagnosis for your son.”
Those seven words stopped Nate in his tracks. Leading up to that moment, he and his wife had spent more than a year seeking answers for their little boy, Asher. After a multitude of specialists, tests and therapy sessions, someone finally had an explanation...

When Dr. Robin Deterding, the director of the Breathing Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado, talks about the urgency of funding the hospital’s Asthma Program, she asks people to perform a simple exercise that many of us take for granted.
“Take a deep breath,” she says. “Now, imagine how it would feel if this basic human function – inhaling and exhaling – was very difficult. Without our programs that treat kids’ asthma in their homes, schools and communities, this would be the daily reality...