Lucky Fin Project

In 2007 I gave birth to a healthy baby girl named Ryan. As much as each baby is unique, Ryan entered the world with an unexpected hand difference. The growth of her right hand had been stunted, her palm small and no fingers expect a tiny thumb. We received painfully little information from health care professionals and my husband and I were left to search for answers on our own. Since then we now know Ryan's hand difference is known medically as Symbrachydactyly.

If you've seen the movie "Finding Nemo" then you know all about Nemo's "lucky fin" and how being made a little differently doesn't stop him from accomplishing anything he sets out to do. In July of 2010 I began making limb difference awareness bracelets in celebration of my daughter as well as all the other children in the world with Symbrachydactyly or an upper limb difference. In the last 6 years I've made over 10,000 awareness bracelets which have been sent to supporters worldwide and the Lucky Fin love continues to spread daily.