Stories

Sydney’s Story: Surviving Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML)

When a 13-week-old baby has a stuffy nose and a mild fever, parents don’t usually panic. A simple trip to the doctor’s office, some antibio...

In July, 2008 Bre and Tony welcomed their first son, Jack, into their family. They were so in love with their new little boy, and it was immedi...

Presenting a seminar she calls Prosthesis 101 to a class of elementary school kids is all in a day’s work for Laurie of Duluth, Minnesota. It...

Watching your child grow and move forward through developmental milestones—learning to sit, to crawl, to take the first tottering step—is a...

What is it like to watch your child grow up all the while knowing she will one day need a life-saving treatment? That was the situation 13-year...

In the summer of 1999, Emma was a toddler with a cough that prompted parents Angie and Shaughn to bring her to the doctor. A chest x-ray reveal...

Osteopetrosis is a big word for such a little guy, and yet Joseph, now just a little over a year old, has had that word attached to him since h...

Parents don’t always want their children to carry on family traditions. Jason and Darlene knew that adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) ran in their f...

For Ryan, it started when a cold passed through his family. As the youngest, six-month-old Ryan was the last to come down with it…but after t...

“I really didn’t understand my diagnosis; I was very hungry and just wanted a doughnut to eat,” recalls 11-year-old Mathew Odette about t...

Any child diagnosed with cancer has the battle for their life ahead of them. However, what if you lived in a third world country and didn’t k...

When you are 16, 14 and 11 years old, the last thing you want to hear is that you can’t have friends over. Luke’s brothers and sister are u...

Before he was old enough to talk in complete sentences, Josh, an animated, sweet-natured toddler, would wake up every few mornings and say, “...

“Life came to a sudden halt when Gabrielle was diagnosed with osteosarcoma,” says Gabrielle’s mother, Tami. That was in 2006, and life is...

Vision is important. Whether it’s the sense of sight or the ability to picture your future goals as reality. Take 9-year-old Sydney; she want...