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AMY@GHFC4WOMEN's SparkPage - Amy Maltbie
On October 10th, we lost our beloved three year old son, Sebastian Ferrero. For the rest of our lives, we will thank God that we enjoyed Sebastian fully, while he was on loan to us and he lived an intense life filled with love and joy. It was almost as if we knew that he was going to last for such a short time on this earth. Although only three years old, Sebastian spoke three languages (English, Italian and Spanish) and was attending pre-kindergarten. He was very healthy and always extremely happy. This tragedy has taught us that we need to live like him, genuinely and intensely, because we are here just in transit. Apart from teaching us this life lesson, Sebastian also saved the lives of others that were waiting for a transplant. We are going to fight for his legacy not to stop there and to insure that what happened to our child does not ever happen to any other child. We trust that there are many willing to help us in this cause. Sebastian died as a result of a medication overdose that could and should have been prevented. He was not in the hospital for surgery or for treatment; Sebastian was there for a scheduled routine endocrinology test. This tragedy occurred in the Shands Health Care System in Gainesville, Florida, a medical institution considered by many to be the No. 1 medical training and healthcare facility in the southeastern United States.Shands announced on October 25th the steps they are taking to prevent similar cases and we have been assured that they will follow through with their pledge. We also believe that they have conducted their investigation in an ethical and thorough manner and we appreciate their honesty and expressions of sincere condolences. However, there is much more to be done. Our adopted hometown, Gainesville, Florida needs and deserves to have a state of the art free-standing Children's Hospital so that many children can come here to be treated by leading pediatric experts in the world, with the highest levels of safety, efficiency and healthcare. We also want to establish a Parents' Advocacy Group to work with the administrators, physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals at Shands to insure that every child and every parent is treated with compassion, courtesy, and dignity. There is absolutely nothing that will compensate us for this loss and we will suffer it forever; however, we are profoundly grateful for the numerous gestures of support from our family, friends, neighbors, families at Sebastian's school and the community in general.www.sebastianferrero.org
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