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Alejandro Alva

  1. Accepting CDH

    I would like to start off by saying hello. I am Alejandro Alva and I am a proud survivor of CDH for 18 years. For years, I was angry and wondering why out of all people in the world why I had to suffer through this. Since my birth, I had to undergo six surgeries (three repairs and closures) and rely on oxygen tanks and feeding tubes. It was a mystery to both me and my mother, how could this happen? My mother never smoked and never drank, it also didn't appear to be genetic. In the past two years, ...
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