How Sidney's Story Begins...

Sidney Leigh Markie was born on July 17, 2007 at Methodist Hospital. Her birth weight was 5 lbs. 14 ozs. and she was 19 inches long. Sidney was born a healthy baby.

Sidney came home from the hospital on 7/19/07. Unfortunately, only a short time after being home she became very sick in an extremely short period of time.

On the morning of 7/21/07 Sidney was taken by ambulance back to Methodist hospital. She was having difficulty breathing, her body temperature was down to 91 degeees, and she felt cold to the touch.

After many doctors and nurses worked on her in the ER she was sent upstairs to Methodist's Intermediate Care Unit for babies. She had further analysis by more doctors and nurses. It would soon determined that Sidney needed to be transferred to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis.

A "Special Teams Unit" came from Children's to pick her up from Methodist.

A short time after Sidney was admitted to Children's Hospital, her doctor determined that she had a life threatening illness; the cause of her illness was not known...

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