Chelsea Smith and her family don’t just give gifts at Christmas. They give back.
When she was 3 months old, around Christmas 1988, Chelsea underwent emergency open-heart surgery at a Seattle hospital because of complications caused by a large hole in her heart.
For the next five weeks her parents, Randy and Melody, and her older brother, Justin, lived at a nearby Ronald McDonald House — a charitable arm of the McDonald’s restaurant chain, where families can temporarily stay in affordable, residential settings while their children are hospitalized. Read more.
