Dawn is the mom of Shane Torrence (1/28/93-9/11/99). Shane was born with left-sided CDH, ASD, hypospadius, pulmonary sequestration, descended testes, and multiple other birth defects. Shane spent his first 10 months in the PICU at Duke University Medical Center and many more hospitalizations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had a trach for 3 years while he was on a ventilator for 2 years and oxygen for 2 and a half years. He also had a Mic-Key feeding tube, hearing aids, oral aversions, developmental delays and textile aversions. He suffered multiple complications including 6 CDH repairs, pulmonary hypertension, blindness for a year, hearing impairment, Cerebral Palsy, multiple blood infections and pneumonia and was lost to a very rare case of gastropleural fistula at age 6 and a half.
Dawn is also the founder and President of CHERUBS. She is married to her wonderful husband, Craig, and they have 2 boys; 14-yr-old twins Braden and Garret. Going back to school to learn more about how to help our charity, she has a 4.0 in college while taking such courses as Biology, Anatomy, Medical Terminology, Business, Web Development, Public Speaking and more. She also works full-time as a web designer and graphic artist and is active in her community and church.
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