Hailey Farmer
Hailey Starts on Her Letters and Numbers Hailey Farmer spent last summer looking forward to the start of “kinnnnderrrgarten,” as she pronounces it, where she will learn “letters, numbers, add, subtract, all that kind of stuff.” The energetic five-year-old also hopes to practice basketball. This fall brought a pleasant stretch of road into Hailey’s life,…
Christopher Armstrong
In April 2002, my eyes started to do tricks, as I called it when I was only 3 years old. What I didn’t know then was that this would start me on a journey that would be the best and worst adventure of my life. Here is the story of me, Christopher Armstrong, 12 ½…
Brad Gould
Brad Was Fortunate “to Live Near a Hospital like Glennon” Brad Gould is 24 and one of the oldest patients visiting SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. He was born with phenylketonuria (PKU), a rare and potentially devastating genetic disease that prevents his body from processing protein, a component of many common foods. Brad exemplifies…
Gracie Greenhoff
Gracie, the child of a thousand faces Sometimes a patient cheers up the doctor and nurses. Gracie Greenhoff, for example, is not yet two years old. She has born with kidney disease that requires repeated visits to the hospital. For months she underwent kidney dialysis at home each night until she received a kidney transplant…
Isaiah Parrish
Isaiah Can Do Anything “Within the first week of getting his permanent prosthesis, Isaiah was right in there doing everything the other kids were doing. Pretty much anything he tries to do, he gets it done,” said his mother, Brandy Parson. Isaiah Parrish was four years old when he arrived at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s…
Cathryn King
Cathryn King Has Come a Long Way “Porphyria has been described as one of those things you learn about in medical school but don’t expect to see in your hospital. Then there she was,” said Alma Bicknese, M.D. Cathryn King, then 16 years old, came to SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center on June 28,…
Nicole Giamanco
Patient returns as medical student Nicole Giamanco, a third-year Saint Louis University medical student, was approaching the end of a two-week rotation in pediatric plastic surgery at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. By coincidence, it was January 25 — the tenth anniversary of her first admission to the very same hospital as a 14-year-old…
Michael Grelle
“I see courage every day” Michael Grelle’s basketball team, the St. Louis Junior Rolling Rams, qualified for its national championship tournament in Seattle last winter. The Rams came home ranked 14th in the country. One of the fans in attendance was Louisa (Lou) Salvin, R.N., a clinical nurse in pediatric urology who has cared for…
Jessica Hahn
Now Jessica Wants to Help Others “Somebody from oncology sat me down in one of those rooms. They brought all of my family in. Being eight years old, I knew something was up. The second they said the word ‘cancer,’ I saw everyone gasp and go into tears. I’d never heard the word before. I…
Kenisha White
“It’s good to be normal!” Hot wings! Pepperoni pizza! “It is just awesome. I remember when I couldn’t open my mouth. I just had to eat stuff I could fit through that little hole between my teeth. It is just wonderful to open my mouth and push a spoon in there,” said Kenisha White, now…