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.
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'I will love you forever': Why one Wisconsin family fosters and adopts dying children
Wisconsin couple offers home to terminally ill children without families
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| Cori Salchert and Charlie |
SHEBOYGAN -- Two parents from Sheboygan say compassion brings children into their foster home, but it's their faith that allows them to care for these children who may not have much time left here on Earth.
Since Cori and Mark Salchert brought Charlie home in October 2015, they've gotten the post-travel routine down. But it's difficult to say that anything is routine when you offer your home to children who are terminally ill.
Charlie cannot breathe or swallow in his own. He suffered brain damage before and during birth, and he requires 24-hour care.
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| Mark Salchert with baby Charlie. |
"This is a suction machine. It helps keep his saliva down," Mark Salchert said.continue at Fox6
"With Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy, generally children don't live past the age of two," Cori Salchert said.
Cori Salchert, a registered nurse, and her husband began fostering terminally ill babies more than three years ago.
I missed this story a few months ago when it made the rounds. The Salcherts have already had eight of their own children. This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever witnessed.
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