Alex
Age: 8
Alex was involved in an accident that caused burns to over 66 percent of his body. He was in the hospital for several months. He was being cared for closer to his home before being transferred to Cincinnati to be cared for at Shriners.
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Aaliyah
Age: 4
Aaliyah is a typical 4 year old who loves games, crafts, movies and hanging out with family and friends. She is a very active preschooler.
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Alyssa
Age: 5
Name: Alyssa Age: 5 State: Omaha, NE Facility: The Nebraska Medical Center Five-year-old Brookelynn fell into a hot coal campfire and suffered burns to her left hand and fingers, legs, thighs, and calves. She has been very brave, enduring painful dressing changes, debridements, and skin grafts (from her torso area). Brookelynn reacted and coped with many [...]
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Alyssa
Age: 4
Name: Alyssa Age: 4 State: Fort Myers, FL Facility: The Children’s Hospital of SW Florida Alyssa is 4-years-old and came to the hospital with leg/hip pain; she ended up being admitted due to an infection. She had to be taken to MRI two times, one under anesthesia; she had to undergo many pokes for new IVs and [...]
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Korina
Age: 11
Name: Korina Age: 11 State: Portland, OR Facility: Shriners Hospitals for Children – Portland Korina is a precocious, witty, smart and charming 11-year-old. From birth to 5 years of age, she lived in an orphanage in China because she was shunned from her own family and culture due to her disfigurement and because she was [...]
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Megan
Age: 15
Name: Megan Age: 15 State: Portland, ME Facility: The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center Megan is a 15-year-old who has a history of asthma. She had a severe asthma attack which led her to having a cardiac arrest and being intubated in the Intensive Care Unit. Also, due to the lack of oxygen for a [...]
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Rodneisha
Age: 18
Name: Rodneisha Age: 18 State: San Diego, CA Facility: Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego Rodneisha is an 18-year-old girl who was enjoying her senior year of high school, very active in the athletic programs, notably volleyball and softball. She had just been notified that she had received a scholarship to attend Arizona State University because of her [...]
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Age: 7
Name: Alexander Age: 7 State: Roseville, CA Facility: Kaiser Permanente Alexander is a sweet, sensitive 7-year-old boy. He loves to play Nintendo DS, ride his Razor scooter, and play with his friends. One day, he was bouncing on the bed in his mother’s room, like most kids do. His mother was with him, but she [...]
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Age: 4
Name: Alexia Age: 4 State: Indianapolis, IN Facility: Riley Hospital for Children Alexia is a 4-year-old who sustained burns to over 50% of her body, after being involved in a house fire. She receives daily dressings and intensive physical and occupational therapy which can be very painful. She has undergone twelve surgeries thus far for skin [...]
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Sawyer
Age: 4
Name: Sawyer Age: 4 State: New Haven, CT Facility: Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Sawyer was admitted to Yale – New Haven Children’s Hospital after a lawnmower accident amputated his left toes. During his inpatient stay, Sawyer underwent a total of eight trips to the operating room (OR) for numerous debridements, wash outs of the wound, and changing [...]
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Clare
Age: 13
Name: Clare Age:13 State: Marshfield, WI Facility: St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital The first day Clare came to Ministry Saint Joseph’s Children’s Hospital (MSJCH) she could not speak or walk because her entire right side of her body was not functioning properly. Her condition was so critical that she needed to be transferred to MSJCH by helicopter. [...]
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Cara
Age: 17
Name: Cara Age:17 State: Phoenix, AZ Facility: St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center Cara is a 17-year-old girl who suffers from MS (multiple sclerosis), a chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system. She was admitted to our hospital after being transferred from another hospital where she was a patient for 3 weeks. When Cara was first [...]
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Alexia
Age: 7
Name: Alexia Age:7 Alexia is currently being followed in our research center due to her diagnosis of Idopathic Multicentric Osteolysis. In this condition, there is destruction of the bones in the hands, feet, knees and elbows. The bones “disappear” which makes it difficult for the patient to perform basic physical tasks. There is also a great deal [...]
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Nicholas
Age: 5
Name: Nicholas Age:16 State: Greenville, SC Facility: Greenville Children’s Hospital Nicholas was involved in a lawnmower accident that resulted in extensive injuries to both of his legs including the amputation of several toes. He spent several weeks in the hospital and had multiple surgeries to help his legs heal. He has had an additional admission including another [...]
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Duane
Age: 16
Name: Duane Age:16 State: Charleston, SC Facility: MUSC Children’s Hospital When Duane was just a year old, he suffered burns to over 90% of his body in a house fire. He sustained 2nd and 3rd degree burns, had loss of limbs and was hospitalized for almost a year. To this day, he continues to return to our hospital to [...]
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Walker
Age: 13
Name: Walker Age: 13 Walker was an average teenage boy who enjoyed life and playing football. Early one morning this all changed when his home was hit by a tornado with him and his family inside. Walker sustained injuries to his spinal cord, currently leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Walker’s life has drastically changed [...]
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Dylan
Age: 16
Dylan was the average, active teenager hanging out with friends this summer until he had a traumatizing experience happen to him. He was climbing a tree over the river bank wehen the limb broke causing him to fall head first into shallow water.
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Kyle
Age: 8
Kyle is an 8 year old burn survivor who sustained 65% burn injury in Aug 2009. He has spent the last few months at Shriners Hospitals for Children enduring numerous skin grafts and extensive rehabilitation.
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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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Dustin
Age: 12
OI causes Dustin’s bones to be broken very easily and in his 12 years he has broken over 120 bones. He just had his 20th surgery to have his spine fused.
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