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Patient Story
What Will the X-ray Say?
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/10/What-will-the-X-ray-sayRebecca is understandably nervous. In less than a week, she will travel the 29 miles from her St. Peters, Missouri, home with her 13-year-old son, Joey, to Shriners Hospitals for Children — St. Louis for his yearly follow-up. Joey will leave his mom in the waiting room, and a radiology technician wi...
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Patient Story
Successful Chest Wall Reconstruction Allows Patient to Pursue His Dreams
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/08/Successful-chest-wall-reconstruction-allows-patient-to-pursue-his-dreamsZachary's proper diagnosis of a rare chest wall condition, Currarino-Silverman syndrome, leads to reconstructive surgery that changes his life.
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Patient Story
Show Me That Smile
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2021/01/Show-me-that-smileIt was an ordinary afternoon in the lunch room of a Rochester, New York, elementary school, and all Ryan wanted to do was eat an apple like his classmates.
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Patient Story
Unbroken Effort
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/11/Unbroken-effortMoments of levity are rare when parents share the stories of how their children ended up at Shriners Hospitals for Children — St. Louis for treatment. And then there’s Hadley’s mom, Connie.
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Patient Story
Sharon's Story
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/12/Sharons-storyFourteen-year-old Sharon’s journey with the Boston Shriners Hospital began this past October after she suffered a terrible injury at a barn where she frequently rides horses.
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Patient Story
Dad's Words: Our Shriners Hospital Experience
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2021/01/Dads-words-Our-Shriners-Hospital-experienceThere is no instruction manual for parenthood, but even if there was, I don’t think it would have a section on how to react when your child tells you they want to die.
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Patient Story
Jacob's Story: On Track for Greatness
https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2021/01/Jacobs-story-On-track-for-greatnessWhen James and Rachel of Plymouth, Connecticut, adopted 19-month-old Jacob from China in 2013, they knew right away that there would be no stopping him. Despite being born without a right hand and right leg, Jacob was on the go!