Patient Stories

Stacia Carroll intended to donate a portion of her liver to an old family friend. When he passed suddenly, she decided to give the gift[...]

When Brent Berry became ill after a liver transplant, and his condition deteriorated, a team gathered to come to his aid. He would require a massive blood transfusion protocol that required backup from across the Rochester hospital practice.

An accomplished athlete, Kari Turkowski, Ph.D., first came to Mayo Clinic as a patient searching for answers. After receiving a diagnosis, she came back as[...]

During medical school, Leena Danawala, M.D., began experiencing debilitating symptoms that led her to Mayo Clinic. Now a physician herself, she sometimes shares her own health journey with her patients. One way she makes sense of that journey is through poetry.

In October, a heart became available in the Twin Cities for heart transplant patient John Neuenschwander at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. When his surgeon feared[...]

Tiny Heeran entered the world at just 22 weeks, more than four months before his due date. Though he weighed less than a pound at birth and faced significant challenges, he's now home and thriving thanks to the support of a multidisciplinary team of experts and his loving parents.

Child Life staff make sure the holidays are special for Mayo's youngest patients through visits from Santa, a balloon brigade and gifts galore. But they couldn't do it alone. Find out how Mayo staff, community members, and former patients and their families come together to make holiday magic.

Christina Wika, D.O., learned she had leukemia a week and a half before her wedding. Treatment plans took over wedding plans, until her care team[...]

From a giant pumpkin to costumes for infants in the neonatal intensive care unit, Mayo Clinic's Child Life Program brought Halloween to the hospital for[...]

When local doctors told him he had cancer but could not find the source, Gary McCracken traveled to Mayo Clinic searching for answers. Three years[...]