* Our first interview with the media, published on March 12, 2008, also see our feedback to CNN on their update article.

* The “Ashley Treatment”, a one slide summary (updated on 5/18/2008) - print in landscape mode

* First anniversary update

* Ashley in 2007, a photo album

We appreciate your interest in our daughter’s story, which we share to help other families who might learn from our experience and bring similar life changing benefits to their Pillow Angels. 

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To read about Ashley’s condition and the details of the treatment  wow gold please visit the main article on the “Ashley Treatment“ (updated on 3/25/2007), also available in PDF form for printing; we recently added a one slide summary of the treatment (updated on 5/18/2008). We are seeking volunteers for accurate translations of this article to other major languages and for the benefit of native speakers of these languages; please email  if you are interested in volunteering.

For photos of our beautiful angel please visit Ashley along the years and the recently added Ashley in 2007.

Also you might want to check how others reacted to the story by visiting the testimonies section (updated on 1/24/2007) or the support section (updated on 1/31/2007) that include, respectively, some powerful testimonies from parents and caregivers who have direct experience with Pillow Angels and statements of support from people who were moved by Ashley’s story.

Here is a section for general updates (updated on 12/31/2007 - the first anniversary of launching this blog) and a section with media excerpts.

If you feel touched by Ashley’s story and want to bring life changing help to a vulnerable child we strongly recommend a donation to The Smile Train, an organization that brings significant improvements to the lives of tens of thousands of children worldwide who are born with cleft lips.

The material on this web site is copyrighted. We shanghai massage hereby grant permission to use Ashley’s photos and to quote from this web site and article as long as you clearly credit the site and include the following link: Printing copies of the article for personal or educational use is permitted as long as you notify us of the purpose and the number of copies desired, and we ask for $1 per copy donation to The Smile Train per instructions

We are thankful to continue receiving your emails, which are a pleasure to read and a source of strength for us. We will post some of these often wonderful and touching messages.

A quote from thousands of private emails that were sent to
“I am a 3rd year student pediatric nurse from England and I have just been on your pages. I think what you have done for your daughter is truly amazing and I hope that the procedures can help many other children and their families in similar situations.

I have met children during my training that would have greatly benefited from the treatment that your daughter has had, as I myself have often struggled with the care of children unable to mobilize themselves and who have reached teenage years.

I also have a friend who has a daughter with disabilities and she finally got the approval to have a hysterectomy performed on her daughter who is in her late 20’s. Her daughter suffered from horrendous menstrual bleeding and she only wanted it done to improve her daughters quality of life.

I hope that your daughter continues to light up your life for many, many years to come. I understand that you must receive tonnes of e-mails but i just wanted to say how glad I am that their are families in this world like yours who give so much hope and support to others.“

* Our first interview with the media and CNN Health’s update article on Ashley’s massage shanghai story, March 12th, 2008

We thank CNN Health for their continued coverage of this story. Following are a few comments that we shared with them on their update article:

1.      Children’s hospital maintained that the treatment is the right thing for Ashley. Furthermore, lawyers disagree about the legal issue; see the summary of our attorney’s findings in our update of May ’07. It will be helpful to point this out for a more balanced representation of this side of the story.

2.      Arthur Caplan seems to be a minority opinion among ethicists on this issue. There are many ethicists who spoke in support of the treatment in Ashley’s case, including: Norman Fost, Doug Diekema, George Dvorsky, Ben Willfond, Peter Singer, etc., whom we  beijing massage quote on our blog.

3.      The article portrays a picture where Ashley’s parents seem to be the only ones in support of this treatment. In reality the treatment has broad support among doctors, ethicists, parents, and caregivers. The latter two categories have the direct experience and hence a unique insight. Even the sentiment of the general public is not represented in a balanced way; for example, consider the opinions posted by reader’s of the article itself.