This 15-month-old girl was treated to a special bubble parade as she left the hospital for the first time in her life.
Alma was able to go home from the hospital after four months, but Helen needed more care and, until last week, had been receiving various treatments at Franciscan Children's, a post-acute rehabilitative pediatric hospital in Boston.
On March 15, Helen was finally deemed strong enough to head home to Cape Cod with her moms Harriet Alexander and Isabela Alexander-Astiz Le Bras, both oceanographers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.Good Morning AmericaLe Bras continued, "We walked down the hall to the bubble parade.
"It was a really emotional, I'm gonna say, week, leading up to her going home," Alexander added. "It felt very surreal and I think we were really excited and very ready for her to come home, but it also is kind of a scary thing to bring a medically complex kid [home] from the hospital."Helen and her moms quickly found a second family in the staff at Franciscan Children's, while Helen received multiple therapies.
Harriet Alexander and Isabela Le Bras say they're"very happy" to have Helen home and reunited with her twin sister Alma."Helen was receiving support for her respiratory system so she was getting weaned off of the support that she needed and getting stronger and ready to go home," Alexander said.
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