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Foster's Daily Democrat
April 7, 2015 ·
When Kristin Talcott’s newborn daughter passed away two years ago, she knew she wanted to find a way to honor her life and thank the doctors who cared for her. Talcott plans to do just that when she runs the Boston Marathon in honor of her daughter, Acadia Jeanne Talcott, on April 20.
Running for Acadia
Durham woman to run in Boston Marathon
Morgan Palmer mpalmer@fosters.com
Kristin and Alex Talcott with their newborn twin sons. Courtesy photo
DURHAM — When Kristin Talcott’s newborn daughter passed away two years ago, she knew she wanted to find a way to honor her life and thank the doctors who cared for her.
Talcott plans to do just that when she runs the Boston Marathon in honor of her daughter, Acadia Jeanne Talcott, on April 20.
Talcott, 33, of Durham, was 28 weeks into an “easy” pregnancy with her first daughter in early 2013 when she went in for a routine appointment with her doctor, but the nurse practitioner had difficulty hearing a heartbeat. Soon after, Talcott was checked into the Boston Children’s Hospital. It was there she was told that her daughter had a significant amount of fluid in her lungs that was preventing her lungs from developing, due to a rare congenital lung disease known as Chylothorax. Talcott underwent several procedures to try to drain the fluid in the following weeks. Five weeks later, on April 28, Acadia Jeanne was born, but unfortunately only survived for around 24 hours.
“It’s a very rare illness,” Talcott said. “It’s not something they really can understand why it develops, it just does. The first hours of her life they were very hopeful they could treat it but her lungs couldn't support her.”
Talcott decided to transform this devastating experience into something that could benefit the hospital that helped her so much.
“I knew as soon as she passed away that I wanted to somehow honor her life and support other families in a similar situation,” she said. “I thought by running for (Boston’s Children) hospital I could help with their mission to ‘make every child well.'”
Talcott’s husband, Alex said, “We had such a positive experience there and we felt so much love and were surrounded by such committed doctors. We just wanted to do something for them. Even though we experienced a loss we felt as if we wanted to give back.”
Talcott joined the Boston Children’s Hospital team, Miles for Miracles, and has been working hard to raise her goal of $6,000. She currently has raised over $4,500 so far.
Talcott said she has been training as much as she can for the April 20 race, but her new twin 8-month-old sons keep her quite busy.
“I’m so thankful that we’ve been blessed with (the twins) and they are healthy,” she said. “But there is not a day that goes by that I don’t miss my oldest daughter, Acadia. For a lot of people, the finish line seems impossibly far away. I’m running in remembrance of the time when I couldn’t see the next step.”
Those interested in help Talcott with her fundraising efforts can make a donation at www.giving.childrenshospital.org by searching for Kristin Talcott under the “support family and friends” tab.
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