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Arlington girl in need of heart transplant
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BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Lacey Ernst’s bedroom was redecorated with a Disney theme earlier this year by the Make-AWish Foundation.
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Weston High School Class of 2013 Speaker Levi Wayland praised the school’s teachers for taking the time to help their students succeed. 731060
ARLINGTON — The Weston High School graduating class of 2013 was urged to take pride in their accomplishments by their peers and Arlington School District staff during their commencement ceremony at the Byrnes Performing Arts Center on June 5. Just as Weston High School Principal Annie Verellen-Grubbs credited her students with helping her develop a greater sense of perspective, even if they didn’t realize it at the time, so too did Salutatorian Tiffany Boitano and Class Speaker Levi Wayland take care to share credit with the school’s staff for giving them the tools and the drive to achieve what they have, in spite of the obstacles that many of them have faced. “Several of us took four years, some took a little longer than four years to get here today,” said SEE WESTON, PAGE 2
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ARLINGTON — When she meets new people, 4-year-old Lacey Ernst immediately smiles, greets them cheerfully and asks them all sorts of curious questions, but one question that she has to ask — “Are you sick?” — has less to do with friendly concern and more to do with a pressing, life-changing need. Lacey has been on the heart transplant list since Nov. 21 of last year, just weeks after her fourth birthday on Nov. 6, but if she catches even a minor cold, it runs the risk of disqualifying her from receiving a transplant, even if a donor match is found for her. “We use a lot of Germ-X in this house,” said Nick Ernst, Lacey’s father. Lacey’s beautifully redec-
orated and Disney-themed bedroom, a gift from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, was meant to provide some comfort for a little girl whose multiple heart surgeries to date have not only weakened her body to the point that she needs twiceweekly physical therapy sessions to help her build up the strength to climb even a small set of stairs, but have also rendered her currently incapable of eating food on her own. “She has to feed through a tube now,” said Nick Ernst, who noted that Lacey had her first surgery at eight days old and her second at six months of age, before undergoing a series of four surgeries between September and December of last year. “She lost the ability to chew or swallow
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