This is Pedicast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello everyone, and welcome.

Once again to PDACast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 550, and we're calling this one Flying Horse Farms,

a serious fun camp for kids with serious illness.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So our topic today is really a cool one,

and it may benefit your family directly,

or it may present a unique opportunity for you to help others.

And that topic is Flying Horse Farms,

which is, as I mentioned, a serious fun camp.

We'll talk more about what that means. But it's really a camp for kids with serious illness,

with special needs, chronic and complex disease. And you may not have given this a lot of thought.

And yet, this is a very important point to ponder as we think

about kids with complex health conditions, things like heart disease, asthma, cystic fibrosis,

cancer, sickle cell disease, organ transplant, spinal cord injuries, and many others. And although

these kids have serious conditions, it makes sense that they should also

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