The thought of a child dying alone in a hospital bed is one former bereavement nurse Cori Salchert finds unacceptable.
Salchert fosters and adopts children in her home state of Wisconsin who have a terminal or life-limiting illness. While sheknows she cannot make a difference in the life of every sick child whose parents cannot or will not take care of them due to their conditions, she has made a great difference in the lives of seven kids who would otherwise have no one.
Salchert and her husband Mark, who have eight biological children, first adopted a daughter, named Emmalyn, in 2013. The infant was born without the right or left hemisphere of her brain, and was given a grim prognosis by her doctors. Still the family brought Emmalyn home, caring for her for fifty days before she died in Salchert's arms in their dining room.
'I will love you forever': Why one Wisconsin family fosters and adopts dying children
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Thank you for sharing this - it is absolutely beautiful.
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