Patient Stories

Each year, Linsey Rippy and her family organize a toy drive to stock the toy closets at Mayo Clinic and Ronald McDonald House. It's their[...]

Medical problems led to more than a year of living on liquid nutrition through a tube for D'Ann Mitchell. After her recovery, her doctor made[...]

Larry Oelkers was just about to leave a high school football game when he went into cardiac arrest. His community jumped in to help save[...]

Mayo Clinic's Child Life Program brought Halloween to kids spending their favorite candy-gathering holiday at Mayo Clinic Children's Center. There were costumes, face painting and[...]

Lisa Kosak and Jan Chnupa met by chance on Mayo Clinic's Florida campus, but the two became fast friends and now offer each other support as they face chronic health conditions.

One of the first physicians Carol and Scott Van Dyke met at Mayo Clinic was Dr. Conor Loftus, who was completing a fellowship. Seventeen years[...]

Four years after testing confirmed Georg Lochner was a perfect bone marrow match for Christy Stubbe, Georg flew from Germany to meet the woman who[...]

Mayo Clinic's Sailing to Hope Survivorship breakfast gives breast cancer patients and survivors the opportunity to connect, heal, and look to the future. When Vernice[...]

Justin Lanners remembers the exact day of his stroke. "April 18, 2017," he says. "It was a Tuesday." That day, Justin awoke at 5 a.m.[...]

Angie Mikkelson used to want to fly under the radar and not tell others she'd had a heart transplant. But then she realized the effect she could have by sharing her story and encouraging others to donate.