06/01/2026
From Carrie, Little Miss Hannah's mom -
Even though our foundation has closed, this page still connects me to many of you, families who knew Hannah's story or who are living your own version of it right now.
I wrote something I have been carrying for seventeen years, about the day Hannah was diagnosed and what came after, and about what I wish someone had said to us in that room.
It is for the parents just starting on this road, the ones who have heard "rare disease" about their child and have no idea what comes next. If that is you, I wrote it for you. If you know someone in that place, please send it to them.
My youngest child, Hannah, was seven months old the day my husband, Robert Ostrea, MBA, and I sat across the desk from a geneticist at one of the top children's hospitals in the US. The path we had to take had been long.