ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/vogtemplate.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" --> <head> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" --> <title>Zachery VandeKuyt</title> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 25px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; } --> </style> <link href="../../../vog.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" --> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> <!-- function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0 window.open(theURL,winName,features); } //--> </script> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --> </head> <body> <table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="pagetitle"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="toptext" --><span class="subtitle">Liam Mazurek</span><!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#0000CC"><img src="../../../gfx/spacers/1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="mainbody" --> <table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td height="19" class="maintext">&nbsp;</td> <td width="231" rowspan="17" align="center" valign="top"><br> <table width="130" border="1" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#69C1F3" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#69C1F3" class="boxtitle" align="center">Your Story </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <p><span class="boxtext">You may have read other peoples stories and experiences and would you like to have your story published on www.veinofgalen.co.uk</span></p> <p><a href="../../../forms/familystoryform.htm" target="_self" class="boxlink">Tell Your Story</a> </p></td> </tr> </table> <table width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <table width="130" border="1" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#69C1F3" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#69C1F3" class="boxtitle" align="center">FAQ</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <p><span class="boxtext">To help answer many of your questions, we have created a FAQ with the help of<br> Dr Wendy Taylor and Professor Karel Ter Brugge </span></p> <p><a href="../../../faq.htm" target="_self" class="boxlink">Read FAQ</a> </p></td> </tr> </table> <table width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <table width="130" border="1" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#69C1F3" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#69C1F3" class="boxtitle" align="center">Forum</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <p><span class="boxtext">The Vein Of Galen forum is there for you to leave messages and contact other people who have been affected by<br> Vein Of Galen</span></p> <p><a href="http://pub17.bravenet.com/forum/show.php?usernum=1447524782&cpv=1" target="_self" class="boxlink">Enter Forum</a> </p></td> </tr> </table> <table width="50%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <table width="130" border="1" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#69C1F3" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#69C1F3" class="boxtitle" align="center">Gallery</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> <p class="boxtext">Many of our readers have sent in photgraphs of themselves or their children </p> <p><a href="../../../gallery.htm" target="_self" class="boxlink">Enter Gallery</a> </p></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="19" class="maintext"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="50%" height="149" align="center"><img src="liammazurek1small.JPG" width="144" height="115"></td> <td width="50%"><p class="faqheader" align="center"> Liam Mazurek</p> <p class="faqheader" align="center"> January 17th, 2008</p> </td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="faqheader"> Liam`s Story </td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <o:p>&nbsp;</o:p> &nbsp; </span> </p> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">My name is Nichole Mazurek I live in Tarentum Pennsylvania. I gave birth to a baby boy on Jan 17th, 2008. He was 7 pounds 9 ounces and 19.5 inches long. His name was Liam James Mazurek.<?xml namespace="" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" prefix="o" ?><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">I had a very normal pregnancy with Liam. I had morning sickness and was very tired but nothing different from my last pregnancy. I found out I was pregnant when my daughter was 6 months old. We wanted our kids close together so we were very happy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">I went to my 39 week check up and my belly was measuring 2cm more than the week before, so the doctor sent me to have a sonogram the next day.&nbsp; I was having the sonogram done and I could tell that the doctor was looking at something and measuring what looked like "spots" on the head.&nbsp; Finally they told me that it looked like the baby had a haemorrhage but could not be sure, I had to be sent to a high risk hospital for a level two sonogram. I called my husband and my mom who was with our daughter and told them through my sobs. My husband met me and we went to Magee Women's hospital in Pittsburgh.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">The doctor at Magee told us that the baby had Vein of Galen Malformation and the outcome did not look good. They explained what it was and how it happened, and they could not tell me the outcome until he was born.&nbsp; I was admitted that day and had an echo done on his heart on the morning of the 17th.&nbsp; His heart looked good except that it was enlarged.&nbsp; I was induced at 11:30am and gave birth to beautiful Liam at 4:17pm. When the Doctor cut the umbilical cord he went into high output cardiac failure, they stabilized him and then he was taken to Children's Hospital 5 block away for tests. He had a MRI and at 9:00 am on Jan 18th he had his embolization done. He made it through, we went back to Magee to have some dinner and at 10:00pm we went back to Children's.&nbsp; Liam was sent to have a MRI before we got there, we are still not sure what happened in the few hours after the embolization, but he was gone.&nbsp; We held him for a few hours and at 2:00 am on Jan 19th we took him off life support.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p> </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB"> <o:p>&nbsp;</o:p> </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">When our fog of grief had lifted a little we did some reading and called the doctors at the hospital for more information.&nbsp; Liam's malformation was very large and he had a lot of atrophy of the brain according to the MRI, everything happened so fast we were never told the results of the MRI. &nbsp;I can't say that we would not have done the embolization knowing this but we can say that we did everything we could. We were scared and sad and didn't know what to ask or expect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">I am glad that I found this web site it has made me feel some comfort knowing that we are not alone.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt"> <o:p><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri">&nbsp;</SPAN></o:p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt"> </span></P></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="faqheader">Pictures Of Liam</td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext"><div align="center">Please click on the image to enlarge it in another window </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="faqheader">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td><table width="80%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="#" onMouseDown="MM_openBrWindow('lmazurek1.htm','','width=450,height=450')"><img src="liammazurek1small.JPG" name="lmazurek1" width="144" height="115" border="0" id="lmazurek1"></a></td> <td align="center"><a href="#" onMouseDown="MM_openBrWindow('lmazurek2.htm','','width=450,height=450')"><img src="liammazurek2small.JPG" name="lmazurek2" width="144" height="115" border="0" id="lmazurek2"></a></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext">&nbsp;</td> <td align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext">&nbsp;</td> <td align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext">&nbsp;</td> <td align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext"><div align="right"><a href="../../familystories.htm" target="_self" class="faqlink">Return to the Main Page</a> </div></td> <td align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="maintext">&nbsp;</td> <td align="center" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <!-- InstanceEndEditable --> <table width="90%" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#0000CC"><img src="../../../gfx/spacers/1x1.gif" width="1" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div align="center"><a href="../../../welcomegfx/credits.htm" target="_self"><br> <span class="boxlink">Credits</span></a> | <a href="../../../welcomegfx/disclaimer.htm" target="_self" class="boxlink">Disclaimer </a>| <a href="../../../contactus.htm" target="_self" class="boxlink">Contact Us </a> | <a href="../../../updates2005.htm" target="_self" class="boxlink">Site Updates </a><a href="../../../contactus.htm" target="_self" class="boxlink"> </a> | <a href="http://my.statcounter.com/project/standard/stats.php?project_id=599770&guest=1" target="_blank" class="boxlink">Site Statistics </a> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td>&nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> <td><p align="center" class="maintext">&copy; 2001 - 2006 www.veinofgalen.co.uk </p> <p align="center" class="maintext">Designed and Maintained by Vein of Galen </p> <p align="center" class="maintext"> <!-- Start of StatCounter Code --> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> var sc_project=599770; var sc_partition=4; var sc_security="dbc72c8b"; </script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/frames.js"></script> </p> <div align="center"> <noscript> <a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c5.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=599770&amp;java=0&amp;security=dbc72c8b" alt="free tracking" border="0"></a> <br> <span class="boxlink">Visitors To www.veinofgalen.co.uk</span> </noscript> <!-- End of StatCounter Code --> </div></td> </tr> </table> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div align="left"></div> </body> <!-- InstanceEnd --></html>