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  • Our Wonderful Life Together
    • A story in pictures
    • About Rowan
    • A special gift
    • A letter from Mom
    • To Rowan’s sister
    • A letter from Dad
    • Remembering Rowan
    • Celebration of Rowan
    • Project: Remember Rowan (December 16)
    • Project Remember Rowan, December 2016
    • Please meet Rowan
  • Our Family’s Tragedy
    • Our Family’s Tragedy
    • Summary – Report to the Medical Board
    • The year before
    • Informed consent?
    • Technically, How Rowan was killed
    • What could have been done
    • References and Conclusions
    • The hospital hasn’t stopped!
    • Rady under pressure
    • Open letter to the CA Medical Board
    • THAT DAY
    • “Rowan is uncooperative”??
    • News from the CA Dept of Public Health
    • The end, and the beginning, of our story
    • Summary report of Rowan’s tragedy
  • WHY our tragedy happened
    • Summary – Rowan and discrimination
    • Special Needs Discrimination in Healthcare- References
    • Special Needs – Different, but Equal
    • What is Special Needs Discrimination in Healthcare?
    • What is Special Needs Discrimination in Healthcare?
    • Scientific and Medical Ethics
    • For the kids
    • Rady’s “birth defect” program
    • A History of Special Needs Discrimination
      • Solutions require understanding our present, and our past
    • It could have been worse
    • Rowan’s Informational Page
    • Summary – Rowan and discrimination
  • A mother’s “No”
    • To the person who stole my bike
    • I. SAID. NO.
    • And I said “yes”
    • NO. MEANS. NO.
    • When you killed my voice..
    • Two mothers
    • “My kid is smarter than your kid”
  • Life After Our Loss
    • Six months later
    • Eight Months Later
    • The first day of kindergarten
    • Nine months later, a 5 year old grieves
    • Halloween – Permission to cry
    • 11 months later
    • A 5 year old’s view
    • The end, and the beginning, of our story
    • My elephant in the room
    • Peace
    • Hope
    • 3 1/2 years ago..
    • Sixteen months after my son was killed
    • The frustration.. and the hope
    • 22 months later
    • Three times the scream
    • Dear Sir..
    • The Missing Page
    • A reflection on my journey
  • Questions and Comments
    • From the Special Needs community
    • Questions and Comments
    • From the medical community
    • From bereaved parents
  • UPDATES/BLOG
  • How to take Action
  • Act of Kindness, for Rowan
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Life After Our Loss

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  • Rowan was killed at a renowned children’s hospital as a direct result of the careless and unnecessary use of general anesthesia for a “routine” outpatient diagnostic procedure .. against his mother’s wishes.

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