Abram
Age: 14
Name: Abram Age: 14 State: Hawaii Facility: Kapiolani Medical Center I am nominating Abram for Hero of the Month for the complications he has gone through and the positive attitude he has kept throughout it all. He was a perfectly healthy boy active in football until falling out of a mango tree and breaking his femur and radius. As [...]
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Adam
Age: 12
Name: Adam Age: 12 State: Minnesota Facility: Avera McKennan Hospital Adam was admitted to Avera McKennan Hospital on March 7, 2007. When he came to hospital he was unable to walk because his left leg felt numb. He also complained of a severe headache. It was determined that his illness started with a sinus infection and it ended in [...]
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Afra
Age: 3
Afra is a 3 year old girl who has been diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). This illness causes her bones to easily break and fracture and there is currently no cure.
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Alexander
Age: 15
Name: Alexander Age: 15 State: Texas Facility: Texas Scottish Rite Hospital Alexander “Sasha” April 2007 I would like to recommend 15-year-old Alexander as the April Kids Wish Network’s Hero of the Month. Alexander, know by his nickname “Sasha,’7 is from an orphanage in Russia and has come to the United States for treatment of bilateral tibial hemimelia. Because of [...]
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Alexis
Age: 9
Name: Alexis Age: 9 State: Texas Facility: Texas Scottish Rite I would like to nominate Alexis Martinez for the Hero of the Month award for the month of September. Alexis is a 9 year old patient with a leg length discrepancy. Alexis was admitted to TSRHC in June 2007 for an llizarov application. She is a quiet, very polite and [...]
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Amelia
Age: 5
Name: Amelia Age: 5 State: Ohio Facility:Cincinnati Children’s Hospital We would like to take this opportunity to formally nominate Miss Amelia for December’s Hero of the Month. Amelia is an inspiring five-year-old who captures the heart of everyone she meets. In her five years of life she has endured more than most adults will ever have to or be [...]
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Ana Leeza
Age: 8
Name: Ana Leeza Age: 8 State: Texas Facility: Driscoll Children’s Hospital Ana is a 7-year-old child who was involved in a motor vehicle accident with her family in April. Ana suffered multiple injuries including a closed head injury, a cervical spine injury, a broken femur, broken mandible and many facial lacerations. The nature of her injuries required her to [...]
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Andrew
Age: 10
Name: Andrew Age: 10 State: Florida Facility: Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida Andrew is an amazing kid. He has fallen on hard times literally. He started out by fracturing his elbow, and ended up with arthritis of the elbow and joints. He always has a smile on his face and is always to lend a helping hand his other [...]
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Anna
Age: 5
Name: Anna Age: 5 State: Alaska Facility: Alaska Native Medical Center Anna is a 5 year old girl with Downs Syndrome. She lives with her mom Cynthia, and her brother and sister in a small village called Buckland. Anna’s mom says she enjoys Dora the Explorer and dolls that sing make her smile. She is currently admitted to the [...]
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Arden
Age: 14
Name: Arden Age: 14 State: Indiana Facility: Lutheran Children’s Hospital Arden (Ardy) is a typical 14 year old who loves movies, games, and hanging out with his family & friends. Ardy was very active and involved in a lot at school and the community. He has had multiple extended hospitalization stay due to gastrointestinal issues. He has continued to [...]
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Bradley
Age: 16
Name: Bradley Age: 16 State: North Carolina Facility: Presbyterian Hemby We have chosen Bradley as our Hero of the Month for March. He is a 16 year old male who was diagnosed with intractable headache. Bradley has had a number of years of headache problems. His headache issues have lead to multiple admissions and continuing headaches despite trials of [...]
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Brendon
Age: 4
Brendon Totten, 4 year old, should be nominated as our Hero of the Month because of the traumatic experience he went through.
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Brynn
Age: 8
Eight year old Brynn was in a car when it collided with a tree; the seatbelt strapping the little girl in tightened and she was propelled forward against the belt, which did not rest against her hips and instead dug into her lower abdomen.
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CJ
Age: 6
Name: CJ Age: 6 State: Nebraska Facility: St. Elizabeth Regional Medical Center CJ is a six year old male admitted to Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska for an infection of undetermined origin. CJ has been in the hospital since the middle of March They have done numerous tests, intravenous antibiotic and an appendectomy with exploratory surgery. [...]
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Callum
Age: 9
Name: Callum Age: 9 State: Texas Facility: Christus Santa Rosa Children’s Hospital I am nominating Callum for Hero of the Month for February for CHRISTUS Santa Rosa children’s Hospital In San Antonio, TX. Callum is a nine year-old male who was involved in a motor vehicle accident, resulting in a traumatic brain injury, both wrists fractures, right hemiparesls, and craniectomy. [...]
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Carla
Age: 11
Name: Carla Age: 11 State: Florida Facility:Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida Carla is a patient that everyone would say that she is a people person. She has no fear of asking people what are you thinking and how are you feeling. She has been a joy to have but after being hospitalized for several days, almost a week, she [...]
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Catherine
Age: 18
Name: Catherine Age: 18 State: Massachusetts Facility: North Shore Children’s Hospital Catherine is an amazing 18-year-old young woman who has overcome great odds to get to where she is today. Two years ago Catherine was involved in a motor vehicle accident in which the car she was riding in rolled over several times. Catherine was ejected from the car [...]
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Chancey
Age: 11
Name: Chancey Age: 11 State: Illinois Facility: LaRabida Children’s Hospital I would like to nominate Chancey who is 11 years old and a long time patient of Dr. Qamar. He was placed with his grandmother when he was an infant and he had asthma and behavioral issues that he has overcome. He has worked hard in school and his [...]
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Charles
Age: 16
Charles is sixteen. He was in an inner tube, being pulled by a jet ski when he slammed into the dock.
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Christopher
Age: 17
Christopher was admitted to the hospital for an extensive surgery on his airway. He was here in our pediatric unit with his parents when all of a sudden he began to hemorrhage from the back of his throat.
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