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Welcome, and thank you for visiting Vally the Villo's website! We are excited to announce, that
Abbie's book, Vally the Villo's First Day Away, has been published and is now available to the public
through the book store at authorhouse.com or by calling the book hot-line 1-888-280-7715. It also is available
online through major bookstore and retailer websites, including but not limited to: BORDERSBOOKSTORE.COM, BARNES&NOBLE.COM,
AMAZON.COM, TARGET.COM, BOOKSAMILLION.COM etc. We hope you enjoy Vally the Villo's First Day
Away !
Abbie had a book signing at Barnes & Noble in March of 2008 and a book signing in April of 2008 at Von Liebig
Author and Book Festival.
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About the book: Vally is ready for an adventure Vally is finally old enough to take a solo peek
at her outside world, (with her mother's permission of course ) Never has she climbed a tree, met other villo families or
run through the hills on her own but today is the day for her to start her new adventure. She brings with her the wisdom her
mother has taught her to help make her way safely and be back home in time for dinner. Vally is an interesting character called
a villo. To most, a villo is an unknown animal species, in fact there is no reported documentation of such an animal anywhere
in the world, but in the mind of the little author of this book, villos did exist. According to Abbie, villos walked the earth
millions of years ago, just like the dinosaurs. They had very large families, were full of energy and were very kind. Abbie
is happy to introduce Vally, the villo. Part of the proceeds from the sale of this book will go toward the Rheumatoid Arthritis
Foundation
To read the most recent article on Abigail and her book printed on June 8th,2008, click here.
Also, our kind-hearted Mayor of Naples, BILL BARNETT, has asked for a signed copy of Abbie's book to put in his office!
Bill Barnett said he is happy to buy a book knowing that part of the proceeds are going toward a good cause, that is, the
Arthritis Foundation.
Ernest Hemingway has a grandaughter, Mina, in Naples and she owns a bookstore called
Hemingway Florida Bookstore. Mena invited Abbie to bring some of her books into her store to be sold. Mina has a 10 year old
grandson who recently had a book published!
And a special thank you to Dr. Rivas Chacon at the Miami Children's
Hospital, who treated Abbie's JRA for two years and did a wonderful job with his treatments for her. We have recently
changed her doctor to Dr. Nickeson at All Children's Hospital because he is in a more convenient location and
we are thrilled to have him treating Abbie as he is outstanding with his treatments as well as his relations with his
patients. To learn more about Abbie's diagnoses, read below.
About the author:
Abbie was born on the Virgin Island
of St. Croix, (her father is the owner of Tip Top Construction in St Thomas and St croix.) She is a boisterous child
who has a gift for creativity and we are very pleased to share a part of her imagination with you! Abbie
made her Villo character up in 2006, when she was 5 years old and made several short storys about them on scratch paper. We
decided to make the book while, unknowingly, Abbie was in the early stages of her disease, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
During the process, Abbie was [unusually] not able to be active outdoors because of the painful arthritis, so instead she drew
pictures constantly. Shortly after her symptoms started, we rushed her to St Mary's hospital in Rochester,
MN. After a two week stay at St Mary's hospital and much medication, we put the story together and sent it off to
be published.
Abbie's JRA was caught early, which
in turn, spared her internal organs from damage due to inflammation. The JRA immobilized her before the
aggressive drugs were prescribed to her by Dr. Chacon, in fact, she could not walk AT ALL. I carried her everywhere
and she was crying every day for about two weeks straight. She now has an Enbrel shot, (which worked
like magic the first time it was administered,)every week to keep her symptoms and disease under control. Dr. Chacon will
slowly decrease her medication while carefully monitoring her blood levels and physical symptoms in hopes she will outgrow
the disease.
We are very happy and thankful
that Abbie is doing exceptionally well. She is now 7 and on her 3rd year in ballet and her 2nd year of gymnastics
and piano. Abbie has responded incredibly well to her treatments and it is impossible to tell by looking at
her that she has JRA. There are about 300,000 children with some form of arthritis and only 300 juvenile
rheumatoid specialists in the US. We will donate a portion of the sales from the book to the Arthritis Foundation
to help further studies of the disease and it treatments.
Below, the first picture is
of Abbie in Colorado, Easter of 2008(on left). She learned to ski down the blue trail during a full day of ski school. The
second photo is Abbie (on right,) in Colorado ski school in Feb, 2009. She did an excellent job skiing once again this
year!
