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…
Lindsey Meglio
Cancer Brought Lindsey to Glennon, Remission and Broadcasting “I have met a lot of neat people because of Glennon, and it has changed my life. Who knows where I would be right now if I didn’t have cancer?” asked Lindsey Meglio just a few days before her 23rd birthday. That evening she returned to Chicago,…
Woodler Decormier
“A lot of people put together a lot of pieces” Woodler Decormier, an outgoing Haitian boy with a crippling spinal disease, had a way of finding doctors and nurses who were visiting from Cardinal Glennon. Following the devastating earthquake that struck southern Haiti in January, thousands of American relief workers, including members of the Glennon…
Theo Spiller
Theo and Justin Theo Spiller’s family moved from Colorado to Troy, Illinois, last year. The first friend he made at his new high school was Justin Swift. Both played football and just hit it off. “He’s real cool,” Theo said. “We both love football and have been best friends since.” At the end of the…
Christian Niswonger
“You hear so many stories about 16- and 17-year-olds who were perfectly fine, who were athletes and then collapsed. That is what they told us could happen to Christian. Her lifespan would be 16 to 17 years,” said Victoria Babu, recalling the day her newborn daughter was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. Babu and her…
Spencer Wells
Weight Management Program Gives Spencer a New Life. On and Off the Field Spencer Wells entered adolescence as a typical “couch kid,” one of the estimated 12.5 million overweight American children and teens. “I was lazy pretty much of the time. Didn’t really do anything,” he recalls. His weight and lifestyle affected many aspects of…