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Happy Birthday… Johnny?
No, June is not the month for celebrating Johnny Rocket’s birthday. But there is one Johnny in the news that does have a birthday in June. Happy Birthday Johnny Depp…. BUT why would I mention this to YOU? Well, since you have been kind enough to be a part of our business, I wanted to take the opportunity to give YOU a gift on Johnny Depp’s birthday. I am sure Mr. Depp doesn’t mind. He seems to have plenty of stuff so I’d like to celebrate his birthday by giving you (and those you know). My unconditional lifetime real estate guarantee: That You and Any One You Refer to Me to Sell The Place they Call 
Home, Will Be Utterly Overjoyed with the Experience and Outcome – If Not, I Will Re-Sell Their Home for FREE (or 
buy it back myself)! My team and I are committed to your satisfaction as well as your friends, neighbors, family and associates. So this life time pledge to do a better than good job for you and those you care about is a gift we are happy and eager to give. | PDF
In This Issue Vol 4, Issue 6 June 2018
Speaking of gifts…
In my recent letter, I updated you on our goal of raising $25,000 for Children’s Hosptial Los Angeles Helping Hands Fund. Since that letter, we have received more referrals and repeat customers. This means we
have been able to contribute more toward this very worthy cause. Consider this a shout out to those who referred us someone they are enough about to ensure they get our award winning service when selling their home. My team and I are so grateful!
Your referrals help the Kids…
Any one you know considering making a move, wanting to buy or sell their home, please refer them to me. They will receive the SATISFACTION GUARANTEE I detailed above and you can rest assured your referrals will help the kids at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. To reiterate, we donate a substantial portion of our income on home sales to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. The reason is because they do very good work on helping kids fight and win battles against 
all kinds of nasty cancers. In fact, kids under their care are 300% more likely to enter into remission IF they can get into the recovery center. BUT, the Recovery Center survives on Sponsorships and Donations. So,
YOUR REFERRALS REALLY DO HELP THE KIDS…
Who do you know considering buying or selling a home you could refer to my real estate sales team? Not only will they benefit from our award winning service, but we donate a portion of our income on every home sale to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
I want to make it easy for you to refer your friends, neighbors, associates or family members who are considering making a move, so here are your options:
1. You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info online or forward the link to those who you know are considering a move.
2. Of course you can always call me direct as well at 888-240-2500.
You and your referrals mean more than ever to me and my team. As we move forward in this new season, please know that we are extremely thankful for you and your being a special part of our business.
With all my appreciation.
P.S. The story of this young person enclosed may cause you to look at your loved ones differently. It did me. Check it out.
It’s easy to refer those you know considering buying or selling a home. Here are the 3 Options Again:
1. You can go to www.ReferralsHelpKids.com and enter their contact info on line or forward the link to those who you know are considering a move.
2. Of course you can always call me direct as well at 888-240-2500.
Why I support Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
I grew up right here in the Greater Los Angeles Area, born in Los Angeles County at St. Francis Hospital. I remember when I first heard about a young 
person close to our family suffering from a nasty disease and getting treated for that at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. It was then that I began to pay closer attention to the work they do at that hospital. Since then, I have learned that it is a collection of hard-working heathcare professionals, most making their home right here in the Los Angeles area, all coming together for a common cause. That cause is to help young people overcome unfortunate health issues that life sometimes throws our way. Being a Los Angeles Area California native, I take pride in supporting in a way that I can the good work these people do at Children’s. My team rallys around our annual goal or raising money and donating portions of our income to help Childrens in thier quest to heal young people when they need healing. My team and I are committed to providing outstanding results for buyers and sellers referred to us by our past clients. I have discovered that Children’s Hospital Los Angeles shares similar commitment to their patients. And since their services survive on sponsorships and donations, we are happy tocontribute and proud to support them. | READ NEWSLETTER (PDF)
Sincerely,
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How Justin Got His Voice Back
Twelve-year-old Justin Ybarra likes to joke around, and he likes to have fun. Very rarely does he take life too seriously—even though there have been plenty of things in his life that have been plenty serious. So when you ask him why he got along so well with Ashley Hall—his speech therapist while he was an inpatient at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles —his answer is not surprising. “She’s not boring,” the sixth-grader explains. “She’s fun!” She’s also effective. In fact, Hall helped Justin utter his first word—after three months of being unable to speak. That word was cause for a lot of celebration. After all, no one had really known if Justin would ever talk again.
Losing everything
For the first few years of his life, Justin was a healthy kid living a normal life. But at age 4, he came down with the flu. Virtually overnight, he lost the ability to talk, walk and 
control his hands and arms, particularly on his right side. He spent a week in a local hospital, then underwent years of therapy. While he didn’t get everything back —his speech was often unclear, and the fine motor skills in his right hand did not return—he was doing well. Then, on Jan. 29, 2016, when he was 9, he woke up with the flu again. “His speech was muffled,” his mom, Lily Ybarra, remembers. “I tried to help him out of bed, but he started to fall to the ground like spaghetti.” Once again, he was hospitalized. Like before, he wasn’t paralyzed, but he had dystonia—a movement disorder in which the muscles contract involuntarily. Dystonia can vary in severity, but in Justin’s case, he couldn’t talk, walk, or control his hands or arms. He even had trouble swallowing. “Everything we had worked so hard to get back,” Lily says, “he lost.” And this time, he wasn’t getting better. After two weeks, doctors told his parents, Lily and Joseph, that Justin needed more specialized care, and he was transferred to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
No easy task
At CHLA, Justin first was in an isolation unit. Once his flu was gone, he was admitted to the hospital’s acute rehab unit—the Margie and Robert E. Petersen Foundation Rehabilitation Center honoring Bobby and Richie Petersen—to begin the long process of trying to walk and talk again. The Center provides coordinated care —through nursing, physical and occupational therapy, hearing and speech therapy, social work and Child Life —for children with some of the most complex diagnoses, including brain injuries and dystonia. “What Justin had was rare, but it’s not rare for us; we see very complicated cases like this all the time,” says Kevan Craig, DO, chief of the Division of Rehabilitation Medicine at CHLA. “We take an interdisciplinary team approach, collaborating with each other and the subspecialists throughout the hospital to provide the individualized care each patient needs.” Justin needed physical, occupational and speech therapies. And while all his therapists helped him, Hall, his main speech therapist, was special.
“Justin and Ashley had a great relationship,” Lily says. “When he wasn’t having a good day, Ashley would always make it better. She was really patient with him, and she somehow always knew what he wanted to communicate.” That communication was no easy task. Justin’s mind was perfectly OK. But to communicate, he had to spell out words using a letter board. Someone would point to a row of letters, and if the first letter of the word he wanted to say was in that row, Justin would raise his right leg— the only movement he could control—to indicate “yes.” If it wasn’t, he would not lift his leg. The process was painfully slow. “Justin had never been a good speller. It was really hard to figure out what he was telling us,” recalls his mom. “He would get frustrated really fast.” There was another big stress, too: the worry that Justin might never talk again. Although specialists at CHLA continued to run myriad tests, no precise cause of his dystonia had been identified. That meant there was no way of knowing if he would regain his abilities. “Honestly, I didn’t think he was going to get his speech back,” says Lily. “I was really scared.”
‘Guess what happened?’
Hall, a speech-language pathologist II at CHLA, says she was impressed with Justin’s drive and determination. “Being in a situation where you’re not able to communicate, it’s very frustrating, and it’s pretty easy to give up,” she notes. “But he worked really hard to let people know, ‘Hey, I’m still in this body!’” To help ease the frustration, Hall arranged for Justin to receive an “eye gaze” device, a special computer that he could control with his eye movements and that would then “talk” for him. And while the daily therapy was hard work, Hall kept it fun—something that was important for Justin’s fun-loving nature. “He’s a goofball!” she says, laughing. “He’s definitely the class clown, just a really smart little guy. He’s very opinionated, too!” Slowly but surely, Justin made tiny but important gains—first, making vowel sounds, and then making some consonant sounds, like “b” and “p.” When he learned a new sound, he’d say it over and over, trying to get more practice. One day, Hall and Justin returned from a session with particularly exciting news. “She said, ‘Guess what happened?’” Lily remembers. “And all of a sudden, Justin said, ‘Hey.’ I said, ‘Oh my God, Ashley, he said a word!’ It was really clear, too. I was so happy. You don’t know how relieved I was. It had been such depressing times, but once he started talking, it changed everything.”
Home at last
After three months at CHLA, Justin went home. Although he could only say a few short words—like “hey” and “no”—he’d made huge strides. His physical strength had also improved, though he was still in a wheelchair. Since then, he’s continued speech, physical and occupational therapies. Today, he can walk and run, although he uses a walker at school for extra safety and stability. He’s also talking again— in full sentences, with clarity. He still goes to speech therapy, and he’s still improving. At CHLA, he sees neurologists Leigh Ramos-Platt, MD, and Quyen Luc, MD, and he recently started a new medication to help further with his dystonia. And yes, he’s still his same “goofball” self who loves to clown around and play with his many friends, his two dogs and his chinchilla. Like his favorite CHLA speech therapist, he is definitely not boring—he just has fun.
How you can help
To help kids just like Justin, referral a friend at www.ReferralsHelpKids.com
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