Thea’s Story: Hemangioma, an Angel’s Kiss


January 6, 2017

For their first project of the 2016 school year, the first graders at Harvard Elementary School in the Houston Heights neighborhood were asked to share five things about themselves.  Among the things Thea W. chose to share was a picture of herself as a baby with her “angel’s kiss.”

During a routine well-baby checkup shortly after Thea was born, her pediatrician noted a small red spot on Thea’s temple, adjacent her right eye.  Colleen , Thea’s mother, recalls, “Our pediatrician knew immediately that the red spot was a hemangioma…” Read full story.


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