In February, Madison Fairchild, 7, waited patiently with her family in a pre-op exam room at Seattle Children’s Hospital. As they waited for Madison to be taken into surgery she asked one question: “Are they going to take all the bad things out?” The simple answer was yes, thanks to a new procedure pioneered at […]
At only 8 months old, Lincoln Seay, has spent the majority of his short life inside the walls of hospitals. This week, however, marks the start of a new chapter: he is finally going home, or at least he’s one step closer to his home back in Alaska. Only 21 days after receiving a life-saving […]
In honor of World Kidney Day, On The Pulse shares the inspirational story of 5-year-old McKinley Miller who was born with just one kidney that did not develop normally. “She’s our little miracle,” said McKinley’s mother, Jennifer Miller. “We want other people to know there’s always hope. All you have to do is look at […]
Watch little Alexis (Lexi) Melton, 7, Irish dance across a stage, or effortlessly ski down a slope, and you would never guess the hurdles she’s had to overcome in her short life. When Lexi was born, her family didn’t know if she would survive. Her extremely rare craniofacial condition literally makes her one in a […]
Just shy of his third birthday, little Bowen Warren has already lived up to his name, which literally means “little warrior, small victorious one.” He’s had to overcome a lot in his short life, and that journey has been as his name would suggest: a battle. In February of 2013, Emily Warren was 29 weeks […]
Madeline Holt is a bubbly, positive 3-year-old who likes to cuddle, listen to music, play with blocks and cars, and, in typical toddler fashion, do what she wants to do when she wants to do it. She is also strong and determined to beat all odds stacked against her. At age 1, Madeline was diagnosed […]
Yajaira Bedolla was 11 months old when her parents learned she was deaf. Living in Uruapan, Mexico, Bedolla’s parents searched their town for resources to help with the unknowns of raising a deaf child. The limited resources they found focused on teaching deaf children just to speak, rather than also learn sign language. They expanded […]
Tyler Stewart was 5 when he had his first migraine. He stepped out of class to get a drink of water, got a headache and vomited. His mom, Kelly Stewart, got a call from the school. The nurse suspected Tyler had a migraine. Tyler, now 15, says chronic pediatric migraines affected his entire childhood experience, […]
Milestones deserve a celebration. At least that’s what Seattle Children’s Pediatric Advanced Care Team thought when 9-year-old Gabby Krueger, a longtime patient at Seattle Children’s, received some good news the week before Christmas. After 14 weeks in the hospital, doctors gave the family the green light to go home. “We’ve been here a really long […]
Yesterday, patients and families at Seattle Children’s, home to some of the loudest, proudest and smallest 12s, received a special visit from Seattle Seahawks players and members of the Sea Gals as part of the team’s annual visit, Captain’s Blitz. It made Blue Tuesday, the brightest and bluest day of the week at the hospital, […]