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Wren Wallace, RN, BSN, is a former UNC Children’s pediatric intensive care unit nurse, where she took care of many pediatric heart patients. Then, when she had Allison in 2007, she became the mother of a pediatric heart patient. Allison was born with a congenital heart defect that required heart surgery, as well as Down syndrome.

“This brought along many sleepless nights because I don't care how much expertise you have or how much experience you have, learning that your child's going to face open heart surgery invokes fear,” Wallace says.

Wallace describes the experience and how the UNC Children’s pediatric heart team cared not only for Allison, but also for her whole family.