 12-year-old Garret Mullikin was on vacation with his family when he decided to ride his friend's new dirt bike. It was Garret's first time on the bike and he lost control on a hill, crashing into a tree branch. The branch pierced Garret through his neck.
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 “When we met Dr. Baumgartner, he told us, ‘I can’t imagine being a parent and listening to a doctor tell me that he wanted to remove a portion of my child’s brain. But from my side of the desk, I can tell you that this is the best thing you can do for your child,’” his mom remembers.
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 Mark remembers the details of the day clearly. On the morning of Jan. 1, his daughter Amy called from Mexico and proudly announced that she’d just learned to ride a four-wheeler. It was 5 p.m. when Mark got the call from the emergency clinic in Mexico. “Two of the three of them were hurt,” he says.
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 Before being treated by Mary Kay Koenig, M.D., five-year-old Katie lived a life of daily seizures, developmental deficits and repeat visits to specialists who had no answers. Just months after beginning treatment for a glucose transporter deficiency, she could talk and run for the first time in her life.
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“When Donovan gets a simple cold, if it’s not managed properly, it can turn into an ER nightmare,” says Julia, whose five-year-old son was diagnosed with asthma in 2006.
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 Meredith, an expectant mom and Clinical Nurse Manager in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at Children’s Memorial Hermann, went into labor at 36 weeks. She never imagined that her new baby would become a patient in her very own unit at the hospital.
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Like her three siblings, Zoe was born with delayed gastric emptying (DGE). It later became evident she also suffered from obstructive sleep apnea. Thanks to excellent treatment, she is learning to thrive.
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At 20 weeks pregnant, Mandy's 3D ultrasound revealed her child would be born with a cleft lip.
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Cindy's pregnancy was smooth until she started to dilate at 24 weeks. After nearly 3 months of bed rest, fraternal twins Wesley and Kenzie were born.
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At 28 months apart, brothers Nicholas and Nathan suffered similar symptoms. After finally being diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, they are improving.
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In her first gymnastics meet of the season, Brittany went into a handstand on the high bar, then overshot the low bar and landed on the mat.
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During his 68-day stay in the NICU, Jaxson learned life skills other newborns take for granted.
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After being deemed inoperable by Venezuelan cardiovascular surgeons, Cleimar is doing well following her lifesaving surgery.
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Born at 23 weeks, Kyle came into this world weighing only 1 pound, 3 ounces.
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Bryce came into the world at 29 weeks weighing 3 pounds, 11 ounces. He spent the next five months fighting for his life.
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Just 37 days after birth, in severe respiratory distress, Marissa was diagnosed with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
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Severe pain in the lower back of the head led to a diagnosis of Chiari malformation for Ashlyn, a four year old with a history of headaches.
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Tatum celebrated her sixth birthday with a helicopter ride and an array of stuffed animals.
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Wade-fishing with his father and a family friend in the Gulf off Freeport, Texas, Aaron was bitten by a shark three times on his right arm and hand.
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Barely 1 year old, Mackenzie was diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis after a series of seizures. Now 13, she’s a full-fledged teenager.
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Transported by Life Flight to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center fighting for her life and then transferred to Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, Lexie re-learned how to do everything with help from TIRR Memorial Hermann.
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Near the end of Sarah’s fifth-grade year, her mother noticed that her back looked uneven.
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Thrown from the GMC Yukon XL he was traveling in, Ross found himself pinned beneath the 3,000-pound vehicle.
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