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MUSC Children’s Health is less than a year away from officially opening the doors to its state-of-the-art children’s hospital at Calhoun and Courtenay streets in downtown Charleston, a 10-story, 625,000-square-foot facility that promises to provide vital medical services unavailable anywhere else in the Palmetto State. By the time they are operational, probably in October of […]
As a child, I tiptoed. Not just through the house on Christmas morning but always. It was my trademark, my “funny characteristic” that made people notice me. It got to the point that my mother and grandmother decided it was time to find out why, exactly, I was walking on my toes. They refused to […]
Gift of Play: Zucker Family Gives $5 Million to MUSC for Children’s Play Area Being in the hospital can be a time of anxiety for children. Just ask Laura Zucker, daughter-in-law of local business leader Anita Zucker. By the time she left home for college, she had undergone 18 surgeries to fix a cleft lip […]
You’re Not Going To Like Me Very Much After What I Say Next Lice. Easily one of the worst words a person can hear, it immediately signals our brains to embark on a nonstop assault of our unsuspecting scalps. As a parent, there isn’t a more dreaded call home from the school nurse. Tell me […]
Remember when you were a kid at the dinner table and Mom urged you to eat those Brussels sprouts you’d tried to hide under the corner of your napkin? She might have asked you to “Think of all those starving children in…” some real or fictional developing nation where children your age would clamor for […]
Parenting is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week challenge. Little ones don’t come with instruction manuals. Parenting is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week challenge. Little ones don’t come with instruction manuals, and that means lots of questions, often after-hours or on weekends. When your baby has a fever, your toddler seems lethargic or your grade-schooler flips off a skateboard in […]