Sister Teachers at Thorpe Elementary Run for Close to Home Cause
Thorpe School teachers, sisters Nicole Lamar and Tammy Ryan, will run the Twin Lights Half Marathon, a fundraiser for Brigham and Women's Lahav Lab, where Lamar's premature daughter participated in a groundbreaking study.
Nicole Lamar knows first hand the fear of sitting with neo-natal specialists to discuss the risks associated with premature birth, and the helplessness felt when confronted with the hard facts: will my child walk, talk and function normally? “The Doctors at Brigham and Womens didn’t candy coat it, and nor should they,” the young mother, who teaches second grade at Thorpe Elementary School in Danvers, explained. “Maggie was coming early, there was no turning back, and we needed to know all the factors.” T The Lamar family’s baby girl, their second daughter, was born at 29 weeks, 5 days and she was in the NICU for two months. The Lamars were approached with an opportunity by Dr. Amir Lahav to join in on a little known pilot program …
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